Supreme Court Decisions and Public Opinion, 1947-2013 Cook, Tracy L. creator text Electronic books. xx El Paso LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC 2014 monographic eng

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1 online resource (236 p.) Cook analyzes the relationship between Supreme Court decisions and public opinion concerning First Amendment religious liberties. Overall, the Court has issued opinions consistent with public opinion in a majority of its decisions dealing with the First Amendment's religion clauses, with a level of congruence of almost seventy percent when a clear public opinion expression is present. She also provides a new perspective for understanding the long and contentious debate about prayer in public school by identifying an area of agreement between the Court and public opinion that has not received m. Description based upon print version of record. Church and state -- United States -- Cases Church and state -- United States -- Public opinion Freedom of religion -- United States -- Cases Freedom of religion -- United States -- Public opinion United States. Supreme Court -- Public opinion United States. Supreme Court Public opinion Church and state United States Cases Freedom of religion United States Cases Church and state United States Public opinion Freedom of religion United States Public opinion LAW / Constitutional LAW / Public KF4865 .C66 2014 342.7308/52 Cook, Tracy L. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC,c2014 9781593327828 (electronic bk.) 159332782X (electronic bk.) http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1756078 http://alltitles.ebrary.com/Doc?id=10901413 http://swb.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1756078 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=818080 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1756078 http://alltitles.ebrary.com/Doc?id=10901413 http://swb.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1756078 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=818080 EBLCP 140802 20200709060202.0 ocn885123658 eng