The Wheel of Law

by Jacobsohn, Gary Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780691092454
• ISBN10: 0691092451
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

How can religious liberty be guaranteed in societies where religion pervades everyday life?

Author Biography

Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn is Fred Greene Third Century Professor of Jurisprudence and Politics at Williams College.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction: Ashoka's Wheel	1	(20)
Part One: Three Models of Secular Constitutional Design
Nations and Constitutions: Dimensions of Secular Configuration	21	(33)
Three Constitutional Models: A Preliminary Account	25	(24)
Conduct	33	(5)
Belief	38	(6)
Ritual	44	(5)
Conclusion	49	(5)
Secularism in Context	54	(37)
The United States: Assimilative Secularism	57	(15)
Israel: Visionary Secularism	72	(16)
Conclusion	88	(3)
India: The Ameliorative Aspiration	91	(34)
``The Good of the People''	95	(9)
``The State Shall Endeavor''	104	(7)
A Conversion of Convenience	111	(8)
Conclusion	119	(6)
Part Two: Constitutional Perspectives on the Challenge to Secularism in India
Religion, Politics, and the Failure of Constitutional Machinery	125	(36)
Demolition, Dismissal, and Democracy	129	(4)
Federalism and Republicanism	133	(5)
The Brooding Omnipresence of Basic Structure	138	(7)
A Secular State: The Basics	145	(12)
Conclusion	157	(4)
Corrupt Practices: Religious Speech and Democratic Deliberation	161	(28)
What Is Political Corruption?	163	(8)
Religion, Equality, and Constitutional Essentials	171	(9)
Corruption's Conceptual Expansion	172	(4)
The Contemporary Challenge	176	(4)
Corruption: Process and Substance	180	(5)
Conclusion	185	(4)
Adjudicating Secularism: Political Liberalism or Religious Revivalism?	189	(38)
Story I: Liberalism Ascendant	191	(6)
Story II: Liberalism Subservient	197	(12)
The Conflation of Hinduism and Hindutva	202	(4)
Hinduism as a Way of Life	206	(3)
Postscript for Story II	209	(2)
Story III: Jurisprudence	211	(10)
Problem-Solving	213	(3)
The Method of Sociology	216	(5)
Conclusion: Liberalism, Communalism, and Jurisprudence	221	(6)
So You Want a (Constitutional) Revolution? Lessons from Abroad	227	(38)
Revolutions and Their Constitutions	232	(14)
Judicial Revolutionaries	236	(3)
Revolutionary Possibilities	239	(7)
Constitutional Harmony	246	(7)
Judicial Finality	249	(2)
Teachers to the Citizenry	251	(2)
Reverse Images	253	(9)
Conclusion	262	(3)
Conclusion: Toward Secular Convergence	265	(26)
Reconsidering Smith	268	(15)
Reinventing the Wheel	283	(8)
Bibliography	291	(20)
Index	311