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Murray Dry traces the trajectory of freedom of speech and religion to the center of contemporary debates as few scholars have done, by looking back to the American founding and to the classical texts in political philosophy that shaped the founders' understanding of republican government. By comparing the colonial charters with the new state constitutions and studying the development of the federal Constitution, Dry demonstrates the shift from governmental concern for the salvation of souls to the more limited aim of the securing of rights. For a uniquely rich and nuanced appreciation of this shift Dry explores the political philosophy of Locke, Spinoza, Montesquieu, and Mill, among others, whose writings helped shaped the Supreme Court's view of religion as separate from philosophy, as a matter of individual faith and not a community practice. Delving into the polyvalent interpretations of such fundamental concepts as truth, faith, and freedom, Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth immeasurably advances the study of American constitutional law and our First Amendment rights.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49803863556369,"sku":"CIN0385339305G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001898074385,"sku":"NIN9780385339308","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385339305.jpg?v=1750975001"},{"product_id":"answer-is-always-yes-book-monica-ferrell-9780385339292","title":"The Answer Is Always Yes","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50233492701457,"sku":"CIN0385339291G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332549869841,"sku":"CIN0385339291VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385339291.jpg?v=1751006430"},{"product_id":"beasts-for-the-chase-book-monica-ferrell-9781932511659","title":"Beasts for the Chase","description":"“Her poems make vivid what has become dusty, and return us to, as real art does, the brilliance of initial perception.”—Jane Hirshfield  “The mythmaking in these poems is fierce and wildly original—this is a thrilling new poetic voice.”—Nick Flynn  Monica Ferrell was born in 1975 in India. 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The volcano?\" Restless in their imaginative scope, these poems leap across the world, from the enduring statues at Angkor Wat and Hampi to Alpine meadows contaminated with plastic to a supermarket in Vermont. Without papering over any of the difficulties we face today, Ferrell nonetheless expands our capacity to wonder, especially about the experience of motherhood, how the future keeps finding a way of breaking through.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book manifests as that impossible, unimaginable collision that annihilates the world as we thought it was and sees it emerge as pure energy. 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