One major premise of liberalism is that the state will not weigh in on the truth of religious claims. This premise has led to a view of the legal system as a distant and dispassionate arbiter of disputes that involve religion, paying little attention to the content of religious beliefs as they relate to a particular law, focusing instead on the weight of the relevant state inte (...)
September 23, 2011
Books
We Hold Which Truths?
The Agnostic AgeLaw, Religion, and the ConstitutionPaul HorwitzOxford University Press, $65, 352 pp.
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