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The Supreme Court on Church and State. Edited by Robert S. Alley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 445. $45.00. ISBN: 0-19-505028-2. Paper. $16.95. ISBN: 0-19-505029-0. - Towards Benevolent Neutrality: Cases on Church and State. Edited by Robert T. Miller and Ronald B. Flowers. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 3d ed. 1987. Pp. vii, 612. $36.00. ISBN: 0-918954-44-4.

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Edward McGlynn Gaffney Jr.
Edward McGlynn Gaffney Jr.*
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Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, IN 46383
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VII. Review Essays and Book Reviews
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 8 , Issue 1-2 , 1990 , pp. 403 - 409
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1990

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References

1. Wilson, John F. and Drakeman, Donald L., Church and State in American History: The Burden of Religious Pluralism (Beacon Press, 1987)Google Scholar; see review of this volume by Edwin Gaustad, 631 below.

2. Noonan, John T., The Believer and the Powers That Are: Cases, History, and Other Data Bearing on the Relation of Religion and Government (Macmillan, 1987)Google Scholar; see review by Kelley, Dean in 6 J Law & Relig 215 (1988)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. To my chagrin I recently discovered that Macmillan has put this volume out of print.

3. 13 Wall 679 (1872).

4. 443 US 595 (1979).

5. 406 US 205 (1972).

6. The unemployment compensation cases are: Frazee v Illinois Dep't of Employment Security, 109 S Ct 1514 (1989); Hobbie v Unemployment Appeals Comm'n of Florida, 480 US 136 (1987); Thomas v Review Bd of the Indiana Employment Security Div, 450 US 707 (1981); and Sherbert v Verner, 374 US 398 (1963). Without briefing or argument on whether the standard announced in this line was appropriate for free exercise cases, the Court abruptly departed from these precedents in another unemployment compensation case, Employment Div v Smith, 110 S Ct 1595, reh denied, 110 S Ct 2605 (1990).

7. No criticism of either volume is implied for failure to include cases decided after the date of publication of the volumes under review. For examples of the Court's dismissive attitude toward free exercise claims, see, e.g., Smith (cited in note 6); Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v California Bd of Equalization, 110 S Ct 688 (1990); Lyng v Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Ass'n, 485 US 439 (1988); O'Lone v Estate of Shabazz, 107 S Ct 2400 (1987); Ohio Civil Rights Comm'n v Dayton Christian Schools, 477 US 619 (1986); Bowen v Roy, 476 US 693 (1986); Goldman v Weinberger, 475 US 503 (1986); Estate of Thornton v Caldor, 472 US 703 (1985); Tony & Susan Alamo Foundation v Secretary of Labor 471 US 290 (1985); Bob Jones University v United States, 461 US 574 (1983); United States v Lee, 455 US 252 (1982); Heffron v ISKCON, 452 US 640 (1981); Trans World Airlines, Inc v Hardison, 432 US 63 (1977); and Gillette v United States and Negre v Larsen, 401 US 437 (1971).

8. 475 US 503 (1986).

9. 403 US 672 (1971).

10. 426 US 736 (1976).

11. 463 US 388 (1983).

12. Grand Rapids School District v Ball, 473 US 373 (1985).

13. Aguilar v Felton, 473 US 402 (1985).

14. 268 US 510 (1925).

15. 450 US 909 (1981).

16. 475 US 534 (1986).

17. Board of Education of Westside Community Schools v Mergens, 110 S Ct 2356 (1990).

18. 463 US 783 (1983).

19. 310 US 296 (1940).

20. 330 US 1 (1947).

21. 330 US 1, 11-14 (1947); 31-41 (Rutledge dissenting).

22. Esbeck, Carl H., Five Views of Church-State Relations in Contemporary American Thought, 1986 BYU L Rev 371Google Scholar.

23. 268 US 510 (1925).

24. 397 US 664 (1970).

25. The Court has tried “to find a neutral course between the two Religion Clauses, both of which are cast in absolute terms, and either of which, if expanded to a logical extreme, would tend to clash with the other.” Walz v Tax Comm'n, 397 U.S. 664, 668-69 (1970).

26. Laycock, , Towards a General Theory of the Religion Clauses: The Case of Church Labor Relations and the Right to Church Autonomy, 81 Colum L Rev 1373 (1981)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

27. McConnell, , Accommodation of Religion, 1985 Sup Ct Rev 1Google Scholar.