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The 1984 presidential campaign issue of religion's relation to government is traced in four major speeches, one each by Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, Edward Kennedy, & Mario Cuomo. Such political speeches are seen as rational discourse intended to portray the speakers' moral, political, & constitutional perceptions as cognitively superior to opposing perceptions. The debate was composed of two substantive issues: religious tolerance & the relation of Catholic moral principles to public policy. The strengths & weaknesses in each speaker's formulation & the limits of the accuracy of each side's rhetoric are identified. It is argued that the core of the debate concerned whether or not the US Constitution allows religious citizens the right to find a place in public policy for religious traditions & practices & religiously based moral values. Modified HA

Compares television and print media coverage; US. Includes a content analysis of newspaper coverage of the presidential campaigns of 1888, 1908, 1928, 1948, 1968, and 1988.

Contents: American politics: the first half-century, by Louis W. Koenig; The growth of the Republican party, by William H. Harbaugh; The election of 1916, by James A. Huston; The politics of the 1920's, by William G. Carleton; F.D.R. and the Democratic triumph, by James T. Patterson; Truman and Eisenhower: their administrations and campaigns, by Victor Albjerg; The 1960's: the issues and the candidates, by J. Joseph Huthmacher.