| Original Event Details
Monday September 17th, 2007
Allen Medical Library
Ford Auditorium - 4:30p.m.
Corner of Euclid Avenue and Adelbert Road on the
Campus of Case Western Reserve University
One of the most
widely-disputed issues about the American
Constitution involves the relationship it might
create between church and state. In the world
of the late 18th century, this was normally
viewed as involving the relationship between
distinct secular and religious institutions,
particularly whether any individual church would
be "established" with the support of the state.
In the United States of the 21st century, it
involves a host of controversies involving
public policy and public displays of religious
belief. Those controversies are debated within
a context in which religious beliefs and
intensity of religious practice are widely
described as one of the divisions driving
American partisan politics.
For Constitution Day,
2007, faculty of Case Western Reserve
University's School of Law and Department of
Political Science will address issues of
religion and the Constitution. Joseph White,
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy,
will talk about the boundaries of the issue: how
religious beliefs have always been central to
American politics and religious institutions are
currently part of public policy, regardless of
the questions that might be raised about what
the First Amendment allows or requires. Then
George W. Dent Jr., the Schott - van den Eyden
Professor of Law, and Gary J. Simson, the Joseph
C. Hostetler - Baker & Hostetler Professor and
Dean of the School of Law, will address issues
of constitutional interpretation, including the
effects of the First Amendment prohibition that
"Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof."
Jonathan L. Entin,
J.D.- Professor of
Law and Political Science, will moderate the subsequent
discussion among panelists and the audience.
Panel Members Include:
George W. Dent Jr., J.D. LL.M.
- Schott―van den Eyden Professor of Law
Gary J. Simson, J.D. -
Joseph C. Hostetler ― Baker & Hostetler
Professor and Dean of the School of Law
Joseph White, Ph.D. -
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy;
Chair, Department of Political Science;
Director, Center for Policy Studies.
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