Making Sense of Court's Establishment Clause Doctrine

The next chapter on “No-Aid Separation, Neutrality, and Religious Schools” asserts that “current Establishment doctrine, in which neutrality is the reigning principle, is truer to the history and theory of disestablishment in America” than the no-aid separationism ascendant in the 1970s and early 1980s. This chapter shows the coauthors at their analytical and expository best. “In all the annals of the U.S. Reports,” Chapman and McConnell assert, “there is no example of a more complete volte-face in constitutional doctrine.” Read Full Article »