Document Type
Working Paper
Repository Date
2009
Keywords
Religious, Establishment, Autonomy, Greenawalt, Personal Autonomy
Subject Categories
Constitutional Law | Law | Religion Law
Abstract
Kent Greenawalt claims that one rationale for nonestablishment of religion is personal autonomy. If, however, the law is barred from manipulating people in religious directions (and thus violating their autonomy), while it remains free to manipulate them in nonreligious directions (and thus violate their autonomy in exactly the same way), autonomy as such is not what is being protected. The most promising alternative is to understand religion as a distinctive human good that is being protected from government interference.
Repository Citation
Koppelman, Andrew, "Religious Establishment and Autonomy" (2009). Faculty Working Papers. 188.
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/facultyworkingpapers/188
