Our Structural Constitution: Religious Freedom and Church Autonomy (A Response to Mark Chopko, "Constitutional Reflections on the Parish: an Entity in the Fabric of the Church.")

Authors

Richard W. Garnett, Notre Dame Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Response or Comment

Publication Date

2007

Publication Information

46 Chi. Stud. 123 (2007).

Abstract

From the Article

The freedom and autonomy of the Church, for which Mark Chopko has been such an able advocate, are not easily separated from both the history and the health of political freedom under constitutionally limited government. In our political tradition, the challenge has always been to find the limiting principle that would check the encroachments of civil power and preserve these immunities.

Recommended Citation

Richard W. Garnett, Our Structural Constitution: Religious Freedom and Church Autonomy (A Response to Mark Chopko, "Constitutional Reflections on the Parish: an Entity in the Fabric of the Church."), 46 Chi. Stud. 123 (2007)..
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