The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights by Shawn Francis Peters
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The Yoder Case
The Yoder Case
Summary
In the late 1960s an Amish community considered state education detrimental to its own values. When the state claimed truancy and took Jonas Yoder to court, a legal battle of landmark proportions followed. This volume is a complete and compelling account of the Yoder case.
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Table of Contents
Building a community in New Glarus; Amish schooling and the seeds of conflict in New Glarus; Compulsory schooling and the parameters of state power; The National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom enters the fray; Judicial precedent and Yoder; The trial of Wallace Miller, Jonas Yoder, and Adin Yutzy; Yoder in the Wisconsin Supreme Court; Arguing Yoder in the U.S. Supreme Court; The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Yoder; Assessing the Supreme Court's decision in Wisconsin v. Yoder; The aftermath and legacy of Yoder.
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CIN0700612734G
9780700612734
0700612734
The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights by Shawn Francis Peters
Used - Good
Paperback
University Press of Kansas
20031009
216
N/A
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