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This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Martha Nussbaum in her book 'Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality'. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case Martha Nussbaum's book.Nussbaum examines the history and the legal cases brought before the Supreme Court with respect to the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment and she highlights the impacts these decisions have and had on American life.

Zur sozialphilosophischen Reflexion Martha Nussbaums gehört maßgeblich die Frage nach der Rolle der Religionen in politischen Gemeinwesen. Sie reflektiert im Rahmen ihrer sozialethischen Konzeption des Capabilities approach, inwiefern Religion für ein menschenwürdiges Leben relevant ist und was sich daraus für politische Aufgaben ergeben. Die wichtigsten Elemente ihrer Argumentation (Menschenwürdeansatz, politischer Liberalismus, Multikulturalismuskonzeption) sollen hier nachvollzogen und somit eine Antwortmöglichkeit auf die Frage, ob und inwiefern Religion die Gesellschaft zusammenhält, vorgestellt werden.

AbstractLiberty of conscience, encompassing free speech, a free press, and freedom of religion, has a rich history in Anglo-American political thought, long predating the drafting of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1789. The debate over licensing acts in seventeenth-century England; the advancement of principles of toleration by John Milton, Algernon Sidney, and John Locke in the same period; the renowned, impassioned, and highly influential essays of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon in Cato's Letters; the flourishing of a relatively free press and free church in eighteenth-century colonial America; and the liberty-championing assertions in the several declarations of rights in the newly independent states of America all played a critical role in shaping and inspiring the popular views in America that made the First Amendment possible.

Traditionally, historians have played down the role of religion in colonial New South Wales. This article contributes to a bourgeoning scholarly literature that revises this position and deepens our understanding of the intellectual culture of colonial New South Wales. Through an examination of the colonial press and the work of public figures such as John Dunmore Lang, I argue that there was a robust debate about liberty of conscience in the first half of the nineteenth century. These discussions did not primarily stem from liberalism. Rather, advocates of liberty of conscience, across the religious and political spectrums, drew primarily upon the natural rights tradition of Christian thought which identified liberty of conscience as the archetype of a natural right. Advocates of this tradition were in dialogue with not only the British imperial world but also across the Atlantic, Ireland, and the United States.

1 sheet ([1] p.). ; Signed: Iter Boreale [i.e. Robert Wild]. ; Verse: "No, not one word, can I of this great deed ." ; With reference to Charles II's declaration of 15 March 1672. ; Item at A4:2[242] imperfect: torn at foot with loss of imprint. ; Reproduction of original in the British Library.

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; Reproduction of original in: Lincoln's Inn (London, England) Library.

[2], 14 p. ; Signed and dated: Ja. Harrington. May 16. MDCLIX. ; Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 17th 1659"; "1659". ; Reproduction of the original in the British Library and the Harvard library.

The first edition; another edition printed the same year, differs slightly in title and errata. This copy a reprint from 1st ed., edited by Samuel L. Caldwell. ; The "Scriptures and reasons" is a part--the 6th-9th chapters--of a work printed in 1620, entitled "A most humble supplication of the King's Majesty's loyal subjects, ready to testify all civil obedience ." signed by Your Majesty's loyal subjects unjustly called Anabaptists", a work attributed to John Murton. The "Model of church and civil power" "examined and answered" in the last fifty-six chapters, is probably not that ascribed to Richard Mather, but an earlier one, never printed, drawn up in accordance with the Act of the General court, March 4, 1634, "by the elders and brethren of every church within this jurisdiction". cf. The bloudy tenent of persecution, ed. by S.L. Caldwell, Providence, 1867; and O.S. Straus, Roger Williams, New York, 1894. ; [Preface]--To the Right Honorable, both Houses of the High Court of Parliament.--To every courteous reader.--A table of the principall contents .--Scriptures and reasons written long since by a witnesse of Iesus Christ, close prisoner in Newgate, against persecution in cause of conscience; and sent some while since to Mr. Cotton, by a friend .--The answer of Mr. Iohn Cotton of Boston in New-England, to the aforesaid Arguments against persecution for cause of conscience .--A reply to the aforesaid Answer of Mr. Cotton. In a conference betweene trvth and peace.--A model of church and civil power. Composed by Mr. Cotton and the ministers of New-England, and sent to the church at Salem, as a further confirmation of the bloody doctrine of persecution for cause of conscience. Examined and answered. ; Mode of access: Internet.