Disestablishment and Religious Dissent: Church-State Relations in the New American States, 1776-1833

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8262-2193-3
Verlag: UNIV OF MISSOURI PR

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Studies in Constitutional Democracy

On May 10, 1776, the Second Continental Congress sitting in Philadelphia adopted a Resolution urging each of the British colonies in North America "to adopt such government as shall. best conduce" in response to the impending crisis with Great Britain. A suitable preamble was passed on the May 15 following, and Congress then directed that the document be released to the public. The Resolution of May 15 Set in motion a round of constitution making in the colonies, several of which soon declared themselves sovereign states and severed all remaining ties to the British Crown. In forming these written constitutions, the delegates to the state conventions were forced to address the issue of church-state relations. Each colony had unique and differing traditions of church-state relations rooted in the colony's peoples, their country of origin, and religion, and the state constitutional framers had to confront the issue of religion, which many would have preferred to put off.

This unique volume, comprising twenty-one original essays by eminent historians and political scientists, is a state-by-state account of disestablishment in the original thirteen states, as well as a look at similar events in the soon-to-be-admitted states of Vermont, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Also considered are disestablishment in Ohio (the first state admitted from the Northwest Territory), Louisiana and Missouri (the first states admitted from the Louisiana Purchase), and Florida (wrestled from Spain under U.S. pressure).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Esbeck, Carl H.

Den Hartog, Jonathan J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Carl H. Esbeck is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia, Missouri.

Jonathan J. Den Hartog is Professor of History at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota.