The Legal Status of Church-State Relationships in the United States

With Special Reference to the Public Schools

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Author:

Alvin W. Johnson

A veritable “book of knowledge” on both the legal and religious aspects of the problem of sectarian influence on American public elementary and secondary school. Whether or not one agrees with all of the author’s conclusions, he cannot but admire the scholarly thoroughness with which this book explores state constitutions, statutes, and court decisions for evidence bearing upon the attitude taken by the American people toward religion in the schools.

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The Loyola Educational Digest

The Legal Status of Church-State Relationships in the United States was first published in 1934. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Alvin W. Johnson was professor and chair of the department of history and political science at Pacific Union College. He is the author of The Unicameral Legislature (Minnesota, 1938) and co-author, with Frank K. Yost, of Separation of Church and State in the United States (Minnesota, 1948).

A veritable “book of knowledge” on both the legal and religious aspects of the problem of sectarian influence on American public elementary and secondary school. Whether or not one agrees with all of the author’s conclusions, he cannot but admire the scholarly thoroughness with which this book explores state constitutions, statutes, and court decisions for evidence bearing upon the attitude taken by the American people toward religion in the schools.

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The Loyola Educational Digest

A worthwhile, unpartisan, and scholarly contribution.

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American Political Science Review