Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-g4j75 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-31T06:20:52.138Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Religion by Permission of the Government

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Frank Patton Jr.
Get access

Extract

In a 1970 decision the United States Supreme Court approved the exemption of church property from city real estate taxes, noting that “separation of church and state” was thereby well served (Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York). The Court stated:

The exemption creates only a minimal and remote involvement between church and state and far less than taxation of churches. It restricts the fiscal relationship between church and state, and tends to complement and reinforce the desired separation, insulating each from the other.

Type
Articles
Information
Worldview , Volume 17 , Issue 12 , December 1974 , pp. 31 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1974

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

* See "Relief vs. Liberation" in the October issue of Worldview, and "Symposium" in this issue.