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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"State neutrality"”.
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Should liberal states compel their citizens to adhere to liberal values? The failure of the UK and France to protect ethical independence and equal civic status in relation to freedom of education and other fundamental rights.
… central argument of my thesis is that a liberal state should adopt a ‘principle of restricted neutrality’, as defined below, when enacting laws, making administrative decisions or adjudicating upon disputes. Toleration and neutrality The concept of ‘toleration’, for beliefs which conflict with …
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Rethinking Edwards v. Aguillard?: The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and the Challenge of Intelligent Design
In 1987, in Edwards v. Aguillard, the United States Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional. a Louisiana statute that required the state's public schools to teach creationism if evolution is taught and to teach evolution if creationism is taught. The Court ruled that the statute violated the …
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Feyerabend's Monster and the Critique of Scientism
… around themes of individualism, voluntarism, state neutrality, and intercultural toleration. Following a three-part scheme, I extract core elements of a theory of scientism from Feyerabend’s political thought based on the social- democratic tendency. After presenting a schematic account of …