by Go here for Scot Powe’s review of Donald Drakeman’s Church, State, and Original Intent (Cambridge). The book is first-rate, in my view. (Full disclosure: I blurbed the book for the press.) After a generally helpful review, Powe concludes, oddly, with a clunky pivot to the observation that “[t]hree years ago, the Supreme Court ignored its [...]
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Here’s a link to a book chapter I’ve done, for a forthcoming volume (edited by John Witte and Frank Alexander) on “Christianity and Human Rights.”
What is the “right to freedom of religion,” a right which our leading human-rights instruments commit us to protecting, and what are the legal and other mechanisms that will sustain and vindicate our commitment? Some mechanisms might be better (or less well) designed for the purpose and so might work better (or less well) than others; some actors and authorities might be more (or less) reliable and effective protectors than others. In other words, the project of protecting human rights – including the right to religious freedom – involves not only reflecting on human goods and goals, but also wrestling with questions about institutional design and competence.
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