Book Review

Eric Heinze, University of London, Queen Mary College

Abstract

Book Review of: MURRAY DRY. Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: The First Amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2004. x, 307 pp. $88.00 (cloth); 29.95 (paper). Murray Dry attempts to draw a number of links between the ‘speech’ and ‘religion’ clauses of the First Amendment. Unfortunately, he fails in a number of respects. He confuses core elements of the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses, and fails to examine Freedom of Speech within the context of fundamental controversies that have arisen throughout the post-World War II era. The errors he makes stand as important warnings for scholars of Constitutional Law.