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“Does Biblical Literacy Enrich Constitutional Literacy? The Bible’s Forgotten Influence on the American Constitutional Tradition” by Daniel L. Dreisbach

Sep 23, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Constitutional Law, Dreisbach, Daniel L., History, Politics, September 2020

Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash This article is part of our “Law, Religion, and the Constitutionalism” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The American Constitution drew on diverse intellectual traditions. Among the influences constitutional scholars and political theorists have identified and studied are English common law and…

“Divine Sovereignty, Popular Sovereignty, and the Dilemma of American Constitutionalism” by Sanford Levinson

Sep 17, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesHuman Rights / Civil Rights, Levinson, Sanford, Politics, Religious Freedom, September 2020

Photo by Dyana Wing So on Unsplash This article is part of our “Law, Religion, and the Constitutionalism” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. By wonderful happenstance, this year’s Constitution Day (Thursday, September 17) occurs just two days before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and one of…

“Constitutional Basic Values and the Religion Clauses” by Alan Brownstein

Sep 16, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesBrownstein, Alan, Constitutional Law, Politics, Religious Freedom, September 2020

Photo by Jesse Collins on Unsplash This article is part of our “Law, Religion, and the Constitutionalism” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The meaning of the religion clauses in judicial opinions has changed dramatically over the last 150 years. Doctrine has shifted, sometimes precipitously. The case law…

“So Help Him God?: The Case of the Prayerful Juror” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Sep 4, 2020Canopy ForumConvictionCavedon, Matthew P., Christianity, Politics, Religious Freedom, September 2020

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “So Help Him God?:The Case of the Prayerful Juror” Matthew P. Cavedon Mother Teresa said that “listening is the beginning of prayer.” One Florida juror listened in prayer and heard the Holy Spirit telling him to vote not guilty. So he did. Did he violate his oath to…

“The Perils of Constitutional Theology” by Nathan B. Oman

Sep 1, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Oman, Nathan B., Politics, Religious Law and Legal Systems, September 2020

Photo by Varun Yadav on Unsplash This article is part of our “Law, Religion, and the Constitutionalism” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Each year the United States Supreme Court produces a new batch of cases construing the religion clauses of the first amendment. There is something stylized…

“Two Tracks for Twelve Steps: Rehabilitation and Religious Liberty in Criminal Sentencing” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Aug 28, 2020Canopy ForumConvictionAugust 2020, Cavedon, Matthew P., Politics, Religious Freedom

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 Two Tracks for Twelve Steps: Rehabilitation and Religious Liberty in Criminal Sentencing Matthew P. Cavedon Right before Christmas 2019, a Canadian man won a settlement after his bosses made him attend Alcoholics Anonymous. Why? The man is an atheist, while the world-famous recovery program’s twelve steps require participants…

“Ministerial Exceptions, Religious Exemptions, and Anti-Discrimination Legislation: Reciprocal Lessons from America and Australia” by P. T. Babie

Aug 19, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysAugust 2020, Babie, P. T., Oceania (Geography), Politics, Religious Freedom

Image by Tom from Pixabay The recent Supreme Court decision in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel (‘Morrissey-Berru’) has prompted a great deal of debate about the space made for freedom of religion or belief in anti-discrimination or equality legislation. The relevant space typically takes the form of an…

“Qualified Immunity and Natural Law” by Brandon Paradise

Aug 17, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysAugust 2020, Christianity, Criminal Law, Paradise, Brandon, Politics

Photo by Eric Yeich from Pexels In defense of his direct-action campaign and breaking of Jim Crow laws, Martin Luther King, Jr. cited Saint Thomas Aquinas’s proposition that “an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.” In the same way that King and his fellow fighters in…

“On Returning to Campus: What Might We Learn from Christian Ethics?” by Paul Lewis

Aug 14, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysAugust 2020, Christianity, Ethics, Lewis, Paul, Politics

Photo by Polina Zimmerman from Pexels COVID-19 presents colleges with precisely the kind of problem that those of us in the liberal arts claim that we are preparing people to address in responsible ways. The pandemic confronts us with what academics call an unstructured problem: one that has many layers and for which there is…

“Fatal Intersections of Black Women and the Law: The Case of Breonna Taylor” by Najuma Smith-Pollard

Aug 13, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysAugust 2020, Christianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, Politics, Smith-Pollard, Najuma

Image by StockSnap from Pixabay I live in Los Angeles, California, near what seems to me to be one of the most dangerous intersections in South LA, Vermont and Gage. On any given day, the intersection looks like any other intersection in the city. But to live in this area is to know, there are…