Constitutional Law vs. Congressional Politics: What America's Founding Fathers Did Not Anticipate

How far should individuals or churches be able to push free exercise of religion -- especially when it comes to accommodating prisoners with unconventional beliefs and congregations whose ministries and missions may not jibe with restrictions on land use?How and why the proposed Religious Liberty Protection Act was crafted, how it was scuttled in 1999 and how it underwent a major transformation to win Congress' approval and become federal law is the topic of a new book by Dr. Jerold Waltman, R.W. Morrison Professor of Constitutional Studies at Baylor University. The book -- Religious