Politics, taxes, and the pulpit : provocative First Amendment conflicts /

Crimm, Nina J., 1952-

Politics, taxes, and the pulpit : provocative First Amendment conflicts / Nina J. Crimm, Laurence H. Winer. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - ix, 407 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- How the government benefits religion -- Tax exemption for houses of worship : not a foregone conclusion, yet conditional -- The First Amendment's religion clauses : mandate, permit, or prohibit Congress to tax houses of worship -- Free speech and religiously motivated political campaign speech : general principles -- Judicial review of the statutory ban on political campaign speech -- Reconciling the irreconcilable.

9780195388053 (cloth : alk. paper)

2010020543


Corporations, Religious--Taxation--Law and legislation--United States.
Church and state--United States.
Freedom of speech--United States.

KF6449 / .C748 2011

343.7306/6