Frank S. Ravitch is the Walter H. Stowers Chair of Law and Religion at Michigan State University College of Law & Director of the Kyoto Japan Program. His current research projects include an article addressing the United States Supreme Court’s recent radical decisions on the religion clauses of the First Amendment and the ways in which these decisions work to harm religious minorities and non-believers as well as the many issues raised by the Court’s “history and tradition” approach to religion clause decisions.
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution reads ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. In 1802, founding father Thomas Jefferson, wrote a letter to the Danbury, Connecticut...
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