Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
While the jurisprudence of the Establishment Clause may not make much sense (common or otherwise) as a substantive legal matter, it does make sense as a series of jurisprudential maneuvers by which the Court has sought to make more room for religion in civic life. In fact, there is a method to the “massive jumble... of doctrines and rules” that forms the law of church-state relations. It is the method of a somewhat disorderly retreat from the Constitution’s foundational principle of disestablishment. The accommodations made by the Court to religious belief and conduct have allowed for discrimination against non-religion, edging the Court ever closer toward a non-preferentialist perspective...
Publication Citation
10 Engage 4 (2009)
Scholarly Commons Citation
Shulman, Jeffrey, "Making Sense of the Establishment Clause" (2009). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 387.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/387