Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2009
The unique relationship between religion the state, and society is perhaps the most fundamental—certainly it is the most distinctive—feature of American religious as well as American political life. It is not only central to any understanding of American institutions. It also constitutes the sharpest difference between American and European institutions, concepts, and traditions.
1 A good example, untypical only because of the clarity and conciseness of its thinking and expression, is the article by ProfessorSutherland, Arthur E. Jr.: “Due Process and Disestablishment”Google Scholar in the Summer 1949 issue of the Harvard Law Review.
2 McCollum, vs. Board of Education, 333 U. S. 203 (1948).Google Scholar For a thorough discussion see the special issue on Law and Religion of Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1949).Google Scholar