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Review Essay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

David R. Dow
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 877 - 895
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2000

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References

1. Cf. Fukuyama, Francis, The End of History and the Last Man (The Free Press 1992)Google Scholar.

2. 330 U.S. 1 (1947).

3. Scores of citations could be mentioned here, but I will identify only a handful that have affected me: Rosenberg, Irene M. & Rosenberg, Yale L., Guilt: Henry Friendly Meets the MaHaRaL of Prague, 90 Mich L. Rev. 604 (1991)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Rosenberg, Irene Merker & Rosenberg, Yale L., In the Beginning: The Talmudic Rule Against Self-incrimination, 63 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 955 (1988)Google Scholar, Cover, Robert, The Supreme Court, 1982: Forward: Nomos and Narrative, 97 Harv. L. Rev. 4 (1983)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Cover, Robert, Violence and the Word, 95 Yale L. J. 1601 (Princeton U. Press 1986)Google Scholar; Greenawalt, Kent, Religious Convictions and Political Choice (Oxford U. Press 1988)Google Scholar; Wuthnow, Robert, Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves (Princeton U. Press 1991)Google Scholar.

4. I discuss the ideas covered in this and the following paragraphs at greater length in Dow, David R., When Words Mean What We Believe They Say: The Case of Article V, 76 Iowa L. Rev. 1 (1990)Google Scholar.

5. See Dow, David R. & Shieldes, R. Scott, Rethinking the Clear and Present Danger Test, 73 Ind. L.J. 1217 (1998)Google Scholar.

6. “Authority,” as I am using the term, refers both to the identity of the interpreters as well as the identity of the sources to which they may turn in resolving cases or disputes.

7. I discuss this point at somewhat greater length in Dow, David R., On Reading Stephen Carter's The Culture of Disbelief—A Dissenting Opinion, 11 J. L. & Relig. 417, 436–439Google Scholar.

8. This issue is addressed magnificently in Smith, Jean Edward, John Marshall 296–347 (Henry Holt & Co. 1996)Google Scholar.

9. Brown v. Bd. of Educ., 347 U.S. 483 (1954).

10. Some forms of bizarre approaches are fatally criticized in Laurence Tribe, H., Taking Text and Structure Seriously: Reflections on Free-form Method in Constitutional Interpretation, 108 Harv.L. Rev. 1221 (1995)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11. This comer of constitutional theory is heavily populated; it includes, for example, Carter, Stephen L., The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion (Basic Books 1993)Google Scholar; Greenawalt, Kent, Religious Convictions and Political Choice (Oxford U. Press 1988)Google Scholar; Berman, Harold J., Faith and Order: The Reconciliation of Law and Religion (Scholars Press 1993)Google Scholar; Perry, Michael J., Love and Power: The Role of Religion and Morality in American Politics (Oxford U. Press 1991)Google Scholar; Stone, Suzanne Last, In Pursuit of the Counter-Text: The Turn to the Jewish Legal Model in Contemporary American Legal Theory, 106 Harv. L. Rev. 813 (1993)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Paulsen, Michael A., Religion, Equality, and the Constitution: An Equal Protection Approach to Establishment Clause Adjudication, 61 Notre Dame L. Rev. 311 (1986)Google Scholar.

12. In my discussion of the Carter book, I maintain that it is legitimate for the state to prohibit sexual relationships between adults and children even if such relationships are central practices of a certain religious group. Dow, supra n. 7, at 430-431.

13. Thus the Court was manifestly correct in ruling against the state in Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993) (holding unconstitutional an ordinance that prohibited animal sacrifice).

14. In upholding the Sunday closing laws, the Court reasoned that such laws had outgrown their religious origins. See McGowan v. Md., 366 U.S. 420 (1961). The crucial premise of the Court's reasoning—that the laws were no longer properly regarded as religious—seems wrong to me.

15. See e.g. Carter, supra n. 11; McConnell, Michael W., Religious Participation in Public Programs: Religious Freedom at its Crossroads, 59 U. Chi. L. Rev. 115 (1992)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; McConnell, Michael W., Accommodation of Religion, 1985 S. Ct. Rev. 1 (1986)Google Scholar.

16. Burke, Edmund, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) (Mitchell, I.G. ed., Oxford U. Press 1993)Google Scholar; cf. Kronman, Anthony T., Alexander Bickel's Philosophy of Prudence, 94 Yale L.J. 1567 (1985)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (characterizing Bickel as Burkean).

17. For a brilliant study of Athenian religion, see Parker, Robert, Athenian Religion: A History (Clarendon Press & Oxford U. Press 1996)Google Scholar.

18. See sources cited in Dow, supra n. 7, at 422-423 n.33.

19. Rosenbaum, Ron, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil 319–336 (Random House 1998)Google Scholar. I should add that Maccoby does not believe that Christianity must disappear, for he believes that theologians can, by concentrating on Jesus' life rather than his death, neutralize the power of these stories.

20. Republican activist in attendance at a Christian Coalition event in New Hampshire, commenting on the presidential candidacy of Elizabeth Dole, quoted in Berke, Richard L., Dole Presents Herself as Both Nonpolitician and an Insider, 148 N.Y. Times A28 (03 11, 1999)Google Scholar.

21. Described in Dugger, Celia W., 157 Homes Burned n Religious Clash in India, 148 N.Y. Times A5 (03 19, 1999)Google Scholar.

22. 3 Die During Religious Riots in Indonesia, Houston Chron. 20A (04 4, 1999)Google Scholar.

23. Sontag, Deborah, Israeli Race for Prime Minister Is Down to the Wire, With Little Cheering, 148 N.Y. Times A10 (05 12, 1999)Google Scholar.

24. Run Rudolph Run: How the Fugitive Became a Folk Hero, 75 The New Yorker 46, 50 (03 15, 1999)Google Scholar.

25. Supra n. 7, at 433-442.

26. I discuss the ideas outlined in this paragraph at greater length in supra n. 7, at 433-442.

27. 491 U.S. 110 (1989). Justice Scalia's approach to levels of generality has (deservedly) engendered substantial criticism. Among the more devastating critiques are Laurence Tribe, H. & Dorf, Michael C., Levels of Generality in the Definition of Rights, 57 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1057 (1990)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; West, Robin, The Ideal of Liberty: A Comment on Michael H. v. Gerald D., 139 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1373 (1991)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; see also Pritchard, A.C. & Zywicki, Todd J., Finding the Constitution: An Economic Analysis of Tradition's Role in Constitution Interpretation, 11 N.C. L. Rev. 409, 426 (1999)Google Scholar.

28. 478 U.S. 186(1986).

29. Supra n. 7, at 436-437.

30. Wilson, A.N., God's Funeral (W.W. Norton & Co. 1999)Google Scholar. Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure was burned by the Bishop of Wakefield (William Walsham Howe) several years before Hardy wrote one of his most famous poems, God's Funeral, yet Hardy himself was hardly an antireligious man. Id. at 3-6.