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Religious Institutions and Associational Freedom in U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Religious Institutions and Associational Freedom in U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence.
Author:	O'Malley, Deborah A.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017
Description:	231 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.
Notes:	Adviser: David K. Nichols.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-07A(E).
Subject:	Political science.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10621586
ISBN:	9780355572773

Religious Institutions and Associational Freedom in U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence.
O'Malley, Deborah A.

Religious Institutions and Associational Freedom in U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 231 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Baylor University, 2017.

My dissertation explores the nature, source and scope of the rights of religious institutions in the American legal tradition. I analyze the Supreme Court's treatment not only of houses of worship, but of religious non-profits, businesses, and student groups at public universities as well. I argue that the protection of religious institutions should concern all citizens because, to say nothing of the sacredness of freedom of conscience, religious institutions play an essential structural role in democratic societies. Religious institutions and other private, voluntary associations defend individuals against the tyranny of the state as well as tyranny of the majority, which Alexis de Tocqueville described as the ''greatest danger'' to the American republic.

ISBN: 9780355572773Subjects--Topical Terms:

174710
Political science.

Religious Institutions and Associational Freedom in U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence.
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520 $a While the current Supreme Court justices have been unanimous in their opinion that houses of worship should possess at least a certain degree of autonomy, they have been much more divided concerning the scope of the rights of other religious organizations. For example, in the 2014 case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, only a bare majority of the justices sustained a closely held corporation's right to exercise religion. Justice Ginsburg, embracing an individualistic understanding of religion and rights in her dissenting opinion, argued that religion cannot be exercised by ''artificial legal entities'' but only by ''natural persons.'' In the 2010 case of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, a five-justice majority effectively denied the expressive association rights of a small Christian student group at a public university by upholding a policy that required every registered student group to accept members, even leaders, who rejected the group's core beliefs.
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