Foreordained Failure - The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom (Paperback, Revised)

Ever since the Supreme Court began enforcing the First Amendment's religion clauses in the 1940s, courts and scholars have tried to distil the meaning of those clauses into a usable principle of religious freedom. In this highly original work, intersecting the fields of politics, law, and religion, Smith criticizes the main positions in the debate and explains their misconception.