Three Models of Secular Constitutional Development: India, Israel, and the United States
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Studies in American Political Development
- Vol. 10 (1) , 1-68
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x00001413
Abstract
As a subject for serious investigation, constitutionalism in faraway places seems finally to have come of age. To appropriate the famous metaphor from the First Amendment arena that is the concern of this paper, it is as if, until relatively recently, a “wall of separation” had shielded both scholarly and judicial analysis of American constitutional issues from the experience of other polities. As a result, too often constitutional inquiry has been denied the illumination and insights of comparative research. My specific aim in this article is to explore the concept and practice of the secular constitution within three nations that are committed, albeit in different ways, to the principle of religious liberty.Keywords
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