Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court
This ambitious and accessible history of the nation's highest court contains information important for every American to know.
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Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court
This ambitious and accessible history of the nation's highest court contains information important for every American to know.
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Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court

Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court

by John E. Semonche
Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court

Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court

by John E. Semonche

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This ambitious and accessible history of the nation's highest court contains information important for every American to know.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780585245898
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 01/01/2000
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 499
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

John E. Semonche is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Religion and Constitutional Government in the United States, Charting the Future: The Supreme Court Responds to a Changing Society, 1890-1920, and Ray Stannard Baker: A Quest for Democracy in Modern America, 1870-1918. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Ties That Bind
Chapter 2 "In the Beginning Was the Word," 1620-1791
Chapter 3 Establishing the Parameters of Priestly Duties, 1790-1821
Chapter 4 Expounding the Holy Writ in Troubled Times, 1810-1860
Chapter 5 Interpreting New and Old Holy Books: Part I: Beginning to Widen the Civil Religious Community, 1860-1917
Chapter 6 Interpreting New and Old Holy Books: Part II: Protecting Property and Other Individual Rights in the Changing Economy, 1864-1917
Chapter 7 Responding to New Crises and Exploring the Implications of the Civil Theology, 1917-1941
Chapter 8 Searching for the Meaning of Loyalty within the American Civil Religion, 1940-1959
Part 9 Struggling to Equalize Justice and Expand the Civil Theology's Reach
Chapter 10 Part I: The Matter of Race, 1954-1997
Chapter 11 Part II: Other Matters Including Gender and Sectarian Religion: 1962-1997
Chapter 12 Making the Scriptures on Individual Rights Nationally Operative, 1960-1997
Chapter 13 The Blessings of Liberty
Chapter 14 Notes
Chapter 15 Justices of the Supreme Court
Chapter 16 Case Index
Chapter 17 Subject Index
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