Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.

The Wedge has intruded itself successfully into educational politics at the local, state, and now national levels."--BOOK JACKET.

“I believe that complete separation of church and state is one of those miraculous things which can be best for religion and best for the state, and the best

In Church and Estate, Thomas Rzeznik examines the lives and religious commitments of the Philadelphia elite during the period of industrial prosperity that exte

The essays selected here for translation derive largely from Thomasius's work on Staatskirchenrecht, or the political jurisprudence of church law. These works,