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Race Relations and Modern Church-State Relations
Thomas C. Berg*
This article concerns religion and race – two controversial
subjects that have figured prominently in America's constitutional
and political debates since World War II. In particular, I wish to
trace some connections in the last 50 years between developments
in church-state relations and developments in race relations.
Recently scholars of the First Amendment's Religion Clauses have
shown interest in how the Supreme Court's modern decisions on
that subject might have been influenced by the political, social, and
cultural context of recent decades: such factors as the changing
attitudes toward Roman Catholicism,1 the rise of secularism in
culture,2 the position of religious minorities,3 and so forth. Like
some of that other work, this Article traces the course of churchstate
relations not only in the Court itself, but in the broader
society.
It would hardly be surprising if developments concerning......

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Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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