Essays on Law, Religion, and Morality

The most controversial foundational issue today in both legal philosophy and constitutional law is the relationship between objective moral norms and the positive law. Is it possible for the state to be morally "neutral" about such matters as marriage, the family, religion, religious liberty, and - as the Supreme Court once famously phrased it - "the meaning of life"? If such neutrality is possible, is it desirable? In this volume of essays one of our country's leading constitutional lawyer...