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Hume's Difficulty

Hume's Difficulty

Donald L.M. Baxter

Routledge
2009
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In this volume--the first, focused study of Hume on time and identity--Baxter focuses on Hume’s treatment of the concept of numerical identity, which is central to Hume's famous discussions of the external world and personal identity. Hume raises a long unappreciated, and still unresolved, difficulty with the concept of identity: how to represent something as "a medium betwixt unity and number." Superficial resemblance to Frege’s famous puzzle has kept the difficulty in the shadows. Hume’s way of addressing it makes sense only in the context of his unorthodox theory of time. Baxter shows the defensibility of that theory against past dismissive interpretations, especially of Hume’s stance on infinite divisibility. Later the author shows how the difficulty underlies Hume’s later worries about his theory of personal identity, in a new reading motivated by Hume’s important appeals to consciousness. Baxter casts Hume throughout as an acute metaphysician, and reconciles this side of Hume with his overarching Pyrrhonian skepticism.
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Hume's Difficulty

Hume's Difficulty

Donald L.M. Baxter

Routledge
2007
sidottu
In this volume--the first, focused study of Hume on time and identity--Baxter focuses on Hume’s treatment of the concept of numerical identity, which is central to Hume's famous discussions of the external world and personal identity. Hume raises a long unappreciated, and still unresolved, difficulty with the concept of identity: how to represent something as "a medium betwixt unity and number." Superficial resemblance to Frege’s famous puzzle has kept the difficulty in the shadows. Hume’s way of addressing it makes sense only in the context of his unorthodox theory of time. Baxter shows the defensibility of that theory against past dismissive interpretations, especially of Hume’s stance on infinite divisibility. Later the author shows how the difficulty underlies Hume’s later worries about his theory of personal identity, in a new reading motivated by Hume’s important appeals to consciousness. Baxter casts Hume throughout as an acute metaphysician, and reconciles this side of Hume with his overarching Pyrrhonian skepticism.
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Environmental Soil Chemistry

Environmental Soil Chemistry

Donald L. Sparks; Balwant Singh; Matthew G. Siebecker

ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHING CO INC
2023
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Environmental Soil Chemistry, Third Edition provides an up-to-date overview of the interdisciplinary field of environmental soil chemistry. This classic text covers the fundamental principles of soil chemistry, including the inorganic and organic components of soil, soil porewater chemistry, interfacial chemical reactions between solids and dissolved ions/molecules, ion exchange, and the kinetics of the soil chemical process, such as sorption and redox. Soil acidity and salinity are also discussed. This fully updated third edition places particular emphasis on environmental reactions between clay minerals, metal oxides, and soil organic matter with heavy metals, pesticides, and industrial contaminants. This text provides the latest technological advances representing the cutting edge of the science. Completely updated throughout with new content and updated full color figures, the third edition contains expanded information on soil minerals and an increased emphasis on the coupling between chemical and biological reactions, mechanisms, and processes. This third edition provides upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in soil science with sound contemporary training in the basics of soil chemistry and applications to real-world environmental concerns. The book offers a competitive advantage for those students looking to incorporate novel, advanced tools into their research.
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Data, Statistics, and Decision Models with Excel

Data, Statistics, and Decision Models with Excel

Donald L. Harnett; James F. Horrell

John Wiley Sons Inc
1998
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This text takes an integrated approach, and places emphasis on modeling and the application of pure methods rather than statistical techniques. This emphasis allows readers to learn how to solve business problems, not mathematical equations, and prepares them for their role as decision makers. All models and analyses in the book use Excel so readers make decisions without having to complete difficult calculations. The book is also accompanied by KaddStat, an easy-to-use add-in to Excel, which makes it easier to run complex statistical tests on Excel.
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Marxist Modern

Marxist Modern

Donald L. Donham

University of California Press
1999
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"Donham's beautifully written book makes a singular contribution to the emerging literature on global modernities. Donham creatively and seamlessly weaves together an array of textual fragments that enliven and enhance his ethnographic accounts, and together produce a fascinating book and a very good read." --Charles Piot, Duke University
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History, Power, Ideology

History, Power, Ideology

Donald L. Donham; Eric R. Wolf

University of California Press
1999
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Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on recent work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, Donald Donham confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kingdom of southern Ethiopia. "Every once in a while there appears a book that ...opens up new ways of inquiring into the ways of the world. Donald Donham has written such a book. The style is quiet and judicious, but the effect is stunning...In putting inherited partisan approaches to the test of explaining the realities of Maale society and culture, Donham enriches anthropology and imparts new vigor to the analytical Marxian traditions. "History, Power, Ideology" embodies a major accomplishment". (From the Foreword).
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Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Updated Edition With a New Preface

Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Updated Edition With a New Preface

Donald L. Horowitz

University of California Press
2001
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Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, Donald L. Horowitz constructs his theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination. A groundbreaking work when it was published in 1985, the book remains an original and powerfully argued comparative analysis of one of the most important forces in the contemporary world.
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The Great American Tax Dodge

The Great American Tax Dodge

Donald L. Barlett; James B. Steele

University of California Press
2002
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In The Great American Tax Dodge, a book that should infuriate and galvanize citizens everywhere, the best-selling authors of America: What Went Wrong? expose the millions of Americans who are dodging their income taxes at every honest taxpayer's expense. With the clarity, insight, and readability that earned them two Pulitzer Prizes, Donald Barlett and James Steele explain how Americans are cheating as never before, and why most are getting away with it. The authors relate the stories of a Manhattan couple who spent $1 million a month to maintain their lifestyle yet never paid income tax, a California couple who provided sport utility vehicles for their children at taxpayers' expense, an entrepreneur in Costa Rica who shows Americans how to hide their money in clandestine accounts offshore, and computer technicians at America's largest corporations who live tax-free. Barlett and Steele describe how the Internet has democratized tax cheating, as proliferating Web sites and their often mysterious operators offer every service imaginable to escape taxes.They discuss the double standard the IRS employs in tax audits--one for the rich and well-connected and another for everyone else--and how the Justice Department tries to jail powerless citizens accused of tax law violations while allowing the wealthy and influential to go free. This book also documents how Congress is deliberately undermining the income tax in order to replace it with a system that will provide the largest windfall ever for the richest Americans--and increase the burden on everyone else. And it spells out how executives like Kenneth L. Lay bankrolled campaigns to institute such a tax system, based on accounting principles eerily similar to those employed at Lay's Enron Corporation. Finally, the authors consider our chances for reestablishing what was once the fairest tax system in the world.
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The Deadly Ethnic Riot

The Deadly Ethnic Riot

Donald L. Horowitz

University of California Press
2003
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Donald L. Horowitz's comprehensive consideration of the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence is the first full-scale, comparative study of what the author terms the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group on civilian members of another ethnic group. Serious, frequent, and destabilizing, these events result in large numbers of casualties. Horowitz examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases. With its deep and thorough scholarship, incisive analysis, and profound insights, "The Deadly Ethnic Riot" will become the definitive work on its subject. Furious and sadistic, the riot is nevertheless directed against a precisely specified class of targets and conducted with considerable circumspection. Horowitz scrutinizes target choices, participants and organization, the timing and supporting conditions for the violence, the nature of the events that precede the riot, the prevalence of atrocities during the violence, the location and diffusion of riots, and the aims and effects of riot behavior. He finds that the deadly ethnic riot is a highly patterned but emotional event that tends to occur during times of political uncertainty. He also discusses the crucial role of rumor in triggering riots, the surprisingly limited role of deliberate organization, and the striking lack of remorse exhibited by participants. Horowitz writes clearly and eloquently without compromising the complexity of his subject. With impressive analytical skill, he takes up the important challenge of explaining phenomena that are at once passionate and calculative.
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The Erotics of History

The Erotics of History

Donald L. Donham

University of California Press
2018
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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free--as something that individuals discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural construction of much beyond sex condition the erotic. Donham makes this argument in relation to the centuries-old conversation on the fetish, applied to a highly unusual neighborhood in Atlantic Africa. There, local men, soon to be married to local women, are involved in long-term sexual relationships with European men. On the African side, these couplings are motivated by the pleasures of cosmopolitan connection and foreign commodities. On the other side, Europeans tend to fetishize Africans' race, while a few search to become slaves in master/ slave relationships. At its most wide ranging, The Erotics of History attempts to show that it is history, both personal and collective, in reversals and reenactments, that finally produces sexual excitement.
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Controlling London's Growth

Controlling London's Growth

Donald L. Foley

University of California Press
2022
pokkari
The story recounted here--that of efforts in recent years to plan for Greater London--is both unique and important. It concerns a world metropolis that, faced with an urgent need to rebuild its war-damaged central areas while still at war, prepared a notable set of special plans. And it describes subsequent vigorous efforts to carry these plans into effect. The London record is singularly impressive, unmatched by metropolitan planning efforts elsewhere. It has implications for metropolitan areas in other countries that are seeking solutions to comparable problems--problems reflecting unanticipated growth, technological and functional change, governmental chaos, and the reformulation of social requirements. Foley presents the first comprehensive factual analysis--British or otherwise--of the London planning experience. He offeres and original, sophisticated discussion of the social doctrine incorporated in the plans, and explains its emphasis on the principle of "containing" metropolitan London. He examines the context within which this doctrine emerged, investigates the suitability of this doctrine in the light of subsequent developments, and discusses possibilities for a fresh look at the main planning policies for Greater London. His approach gives the book depth without turning it into a specialized academic treatise. It speaks directly to thoughtful city-dwellers who are concerned to control rather than to be controlled by their environment. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
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Governing the London Region

Governing the London Region

Donald L. Foley

University of California Press
2022
pokkari
Governing the London Region: Reorganization and Planning in the 1960s explores the significant transformation of London’s metropolitan governance as part of a broader examination of urban government adaptation worldwide. Faced with the complexities of burgeoning metropolitan populations and their interdependencies, London undertook a substantial reorganization to address the demands of its growing urban expanse. This reorganization, rooted in extensive studies of urban governance across Britain, underscores a shift away from simplistic consolidations toward a nuanced understanding of metropolitan government as an integral part of a national system. Donald L. Foley’s analysis situates London’s reforms within a global context, drawing connections between the challenges and solutions experienced in Britain and other major metropolitan regions like Toronto, Stockholm, and Paris. Foley argues that London's efforts highlight a key principle: metropolitan governance must balance local autonomy with coordinated regional and national involvement. The book emphasizes that effective urban governance requires tailored approaches that consider historical, institutional, and cultural contexts. By examining London's changes alongside broader urban governance initiatives, Foley's work contributes valuable insights to the field of metropolitan studies, offering lessons that resonate across varied urban landscapes. As part of an ongoing series of studies on metropolitan regions, this volume sets the stage for comparative analyses of global efforts to navigate the intricate demands of urban growth and governance in the 20th century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
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A Democratic South Africa?

A Democratic South Africa?

Donald L. Horowitz

University of California Press
2022
pokkari
A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society explores the formidable challenges of building a democratic system in a society as racially and ethnically divided as South Africa. The book underscores the complexity of crafting institutions and processes that can foster inclusivity and stability in a deeply polarized setting. South Africa's history of apartheid has left a legacy of distrust and ideological division, with extreme political forces at both ends of the spectrum threatening the democratic experiment. The author addresses critical questions of constitutional design, minority rights protection, and electoral systems, emphasizing the necessity of innovative solutions to counter conflict and promote intergroup cooperation. The study situates South Africa's democratization within a broader comparative context, highlighting its potential as a case study for other divided societies. It examines how democratic processes can transform relationships among political actors, even in unpromising conditions. By focusing on the interplay between constitutional processes and institutional design, the book offers insights into how participation, negotiation, and decision-making shape democratic outcomes. Ultimately, it presents South Africa as a quintessential challenge to democratic conflict management, where success could provide valuable lessons for fostering democracy in similarly fragmented contexts. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
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An Ownership Theory of the Trade Union

An Ownership Theory of the Trade Union

Donald L. Martin

University of California Press
2021
pokkari
An Ownership Theory of the Trade Union explores the economic theories behind trade union behavior, analyzing the historical struggle to define what unions maximize. Despite various theories suggesting unions aim to maximize wage rates, membership benefits, or organizational survival, a consistent economic model for unions has been elusive. The book critiques previous models, highlighting the need for an ownership-based approach to better explain unions’ objectives. By examining the structure of property rights within unions, the book argues that a theory of union behavior must take into account the specific rights and incentives facing union members and leaders. The author introduces two contrasting models: one assuming private-property rights that allow union members to share in the capital value of future union gains, and another based on nonproprietary assumptions where members lack individual claims to union rents. These models offer differing predictions for union policies on wages, benefits, and membership, influenced by whether union members have a vested interest in the union's capitalized wealth. The book asserts that analyzing the union's structure of property rights provides valuable insights into the practical incentives that drive union policies, which are often inconsistent with wealth-maximization assumptions in traditional economic models. The book’s chapters address specific elements of union organization, including the role of union leaders, monitoring costs, and membership pricing and rationing. Through this analysis, it reveals how the ownership structure within unions shapes their economic decisions, contrasting proprietary and nonproprietary models in terms of membership access, wage policies, and managerial discretion. By focusing on property rights and institutional incentives, An Ownership Theory of the Trade Union aims to offer a more precise and testable model of union behavior, aligning it more closely with broader economic theories. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
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Controlling London's Growth

Controlling London's Growth

Donald L. Foley

University of California Press
2022
sidottu
The story recounted here--that of efforts in recent years to plan for Greater London--is both unique and important. It concerns a world metropolis that, faced with an urgent need to rebuild its war-damaged central areas while still at war, prepared a notable set of special plans. And it describes subsequent vigorous efforts to carry these plans into effect. The London record is singularly impressive, unmatched by metropolitan planning efforts elsewhere. It has implications for metropolitan areas in other countries that are seeking solutions to comparable problems--problems reflecting unanticipated growth, technological and functional change, governmental chaos, and the reformulation of social requirements. Foley presents the first comprehensive factual analysis--British or otherwise--of the London planning experience. He offeres and original, sophisticated discussion of the social doctrine incorporated in the plans, and explains its emphasis on the principle of "containing" metropolitan London. He examines the context within which this doctrine emerged, investigates the suitability of this doctrine in the light of subsequent developments, and discusses possibilities for a fresh look at the main planning policies for Greater London. His approach gives the book depth without turning it into a specialized academic treatise. It speaks directly to thoughtful city-dwellers who are concerned to control rather than to be controlled by their environment. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
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Governing the London Region

Governing the London Region

Donald L. Foley

University of California Press
2022
sidottu
Governing the London Region: Reorganization and Planning in the 1960s explores the significant transformation of London’s metropolitan governance as part of a broader examination of urban government adaptation worldwide. Faced with the complexities of burgeoning metropolitan populations and their interdependencies, London undertook a substantial reorganization to address the demands of its growing urban expanse. This reorganization, rooted in extensive studies of urban governance across Britain, underscores a shift away from simplistic consolidations toward a nuanced understanding of metropolitan government as an integral part of a national system. Donald L. Foley’s analysis situates London’s reforms within a global context, drawing connections between the challenges and solutions experienced in Britain and other major metropolitan regions like Toronto, Stockholm, and Paris. Foley argues that London's efforts highlight a key principle: metropolitan governance must balance local autonomy with coordinated regional and national involvement. The book emphasizes that effective urban governance requires tailored approaches that consider historical, institutional, and cultural contexts. By examining London's changes alongside broader urban governance initiatives, Foley's work contributes valuable insights to the field of metropolitan studies, offering lessons that resonate across varied urban landscapes. As part of an ongoing series of studies on metropolitan regions, this volume sets the stage for comparative analyses of global efforts to navigate the intricate demands of urban growth and governance in the 20th century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
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A Democratic South Africa?

A Democratic South Africa?

Donald L. Horowitz

University of California Press
2022
sidottu
A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society explores the formidable challenges of building a democratic system in a society as racially and ethnically divided as South Africa. The book underscores the complexity of crafting institutions and processes that can foster inclusivity and stability in a deeply polarized setting. South Africa's history of apartheid has left a legacy of distrust and ideological division, with extreme political forces at both ends of the spectrum threatening the democratic experiment. The author addresses critical questions of constitutional design, minority rights protection, and electoral systems, emphasizing the necessity of innovative solutions to counter conflict and promote intergroup cooperation. The study situates South Africa's democratization within a broader comparative context, highlighting its potential as a case study for other divided societies. It examines how democratic processes can transform relationships among political actors, even in unpromising conditions. By focusing on the interplay between constitutional processes and institutional design, the book offers insights into how participation, negotiation, and decision-making shape democratic outcomes. Ultimately, it presents South Africa as a quintessential challenge to democratic conflict management, where success could provide valuable lessons for fostering democracy in similarly fragmented contexts. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
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An Ownership Theory of the Trade Union

An Ownership Theory of the Trade Union

Donald L. Martin

University of California Press
2021
sidottu
An Ownership Theory of the Trade Union explores the economic theories behind trade union behavior, analyzing the historical struggle to define what unions maximize. Despite various theories suggesting unions aim to maximize wage rates, membership benefits, or organizational survival, a consistent economic model for unions has been elusive. The book critiques previous models, highlighting the need for an ownership-based approach to better explain unions’ objectives. By examining the structure of property rights within unions, the book argues that a theory of union behavior must take into account the specific rights and incentives facing union members and leaders. The author introduces two contrasting models: one assuming private-property rights that allow union members to share in the capital value of future union gains, and another based on nonproprietary assumptions where members lack individual claims to union rents. These models offer differing predictions for union policies on wages, benefits, and membership, influenced by whether union members have a vested interest in the union's capitalized wealth. The book asserts that analyzing the union's structure of property rights provides valuable insights into the practical incentives that drive union policies, which are often inconsistent with wealth-maximization assumptions in traditional economic models. The book’s chapters address specific elements of union organization, including the role of union leaders, monitoring costs, and membership pricing and rationing. Through this analysis, it reveals how the ownership structure within unions shapes their economic decisions, contrasting proprietary and nonproprietary models in terms of membership access, wage policies, and managerial discretion. By focusing on property rights and institutional incentives, An Ownership Theory of the Trade Union aims to offer a more precise and testable model of union behavior, aligning it more closely with broader economic theories. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
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Church, State, and Original Intent

Church, State, and Original Intent

Donald L. Drakeman

Cambridge University Press
2009
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This provocative book shows how the United States Supreme Court has used constitutional history in church-state cases. Donald L. Drakeman describes the ways in which the justices have portrayed the framers' actions in a light favoring their own views about how church and state should be separated. He then marshals the historical evidence, leading to a surprising conclusion about the original meaning of the First Amendment's establishment clause: the framers originally intended the establishment clause only as a prohibition against a single national church. In showing how conventional interpretations have gone astray, he casts light on the close relationship between religion and government in America and brings to life a fascinating parade of church-state constitutional controversies from the founding era to the present.
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Church, State, and Original Intent

Church, State, and Original Intent

Donald L. Drakeman

Cambridge University Press
2009
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This provocative book shows how the United States Supreme Court has used constitutional history in church-state cases. Donald L. Drakeman describes the ways in which the justices have portrayed the framers' actions in a light favoring their own views about how church and state should be separated. He then marshals the historical evidence, leading to a surprising conclusion about the original meaning of the First Amendment's establishment clause: the framers originally intended the establishment clause only as a prohibition against a single national church. In showing how conventional interpretations have gone astray, he casts light on the close relationship between religion and government in America and brings to life a fascinating parade of church-state constitutional controversies from the founding era to the present.
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