The Religion Clauses

The Case for Separating Church and State

By Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman

Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Howard Gillman is chancellor of the University of California, Irvine and holds faculty appointments in the School of Law and the Departments of Political Science, History, and Criminology, Law and Society. Together they write about American history and the proper relationship between the state and religion.

After examining all the major approaches to the meaning of the Constitution’s religion clauses, they contend that the best approaches are for the government to be strictly secular and for there to be no special exemptions for religious people from neutral and general laws that others must obey.

Hardcover, 240 pages.