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The Johns Hopkins University Press
October 2001
On Sale: October 5, 2001
370 pages ISBN: 0801872367 EAN: 9780801872365 Trade Size
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Non-Fiction
In this new edition of The Amish and the State Donald
Kraybill brings together legal scholars and social
scientists to explore the unique series of conflicts between
a traditional religious minority and the modern state. In
the process, the authors trace the preservation--and the
erosion--of religious liberty in American life. Kraybill
begins with an overview of the Amish in North America and
describes the "negotiation model" used throughout the book
to interpret a variety of legal conflicts. Subsequent
chapters deal with specific aspects of religious freedom
over which the Amish and the state have clashed. Focusing on
the period from 1925 to 2001 in the United States, the
authors examine conflicts over military service and
conscription, Social Security and taxes, education, health
care, land use and zoning, regulation of slow-moving
vehicles, and other first amendment issues. New concluding
chapters, by constitutional expert William Ball, who
defended the Amish before the Supreme Court in 1972 in the
landmark Wisconsin v. Yoder case, and law professor Garret
Epps, assess the Amish contribution to preserving religious
liberty in the United States.
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