{"product_id":"foreordained-failure","title":"Foreordained Failure","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver since the Supreme Court began enforcing the First Amendment's religion clauses in the 1940s, courts and scholars have tried to distill the meaning of those clauses into a useable principle of religious freedom. In this highly original work, Smith criticizes the main positions in the debate and explains their misconceptions. He argues that efforts to find a principle of religious freedom in the \"original meaning\" are fruitless because the clauses were purely jurisdictional in nature: they were meant to place authority over questions of religion with the states, and nothing more. Contending that the perennial quest to distill religious freedom into a \"principle,\" is futile, Smith advocates a fundamental reassessment of the premises upon which courts have proceeded in this area.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steven D. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43577540149309,"sku":"9780195132489","price":167.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/foreordained-failure","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}