Bibliography
Useful studies upholding and explaining the constitutional basis for government collaboration with faith-based organizations include the following:
David M. Ackerman, Public Aid to Faith-Based Organizations (Charitable Choice): Background and Selected Legal Issues, Report for Congress (RL31043). Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, March 28, 2003.
Carl Esbeck, "A Constitutional Case for Governmental Cooperation with Faith-based Social Service Providers," Emory Law Journal 46 (Winter 1997): 1-41.
Carl Esbeck, "The Neutral Treatment of Religion and Faith-Based Social Service Providers: Charitable Choice and Its Critics." In Welfare Reform & Faith-Based Organizations, edited by Derek Davis and Barry Hankins (Waco, Texas: J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor University, 1999).
Carl Esbeck, The Regulation of Religious Organizations as Recipients of Governmental Assistance (Washington, DC: Center for Public Justice, 1996).
Carl Esbeck, "Statement Before the United States House of Representatives Concerning Charitable Choice and the Community Solutions Act," testimony for the Constitution subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 107th Congress, June 7, 2001, reprinted in Notre Dame Journal Of Law Ethics & Public Policy 16 (2002).
Carl Esbeck, Stanley W. Carlson-Thies, and Ronald J. Sider. The Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations to Staff on a Religious Basis (Washington, DC: Center for Public Justice, 2004).
Douglas Laycock, "The Constitutional Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Competitions for Federal Social Service Funds," Testimony for the Constitution subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 107th Congress, June 7, 2001.
Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle. "Zelman's Future: Vouchers, Sectarian Providers, and the Next Round of Constitutional Battles." Notre Dame Law Review 78 (May 2003): 917-94.
Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle, The State of the Law on Government Partnerships with Faith-Based Organizations (Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006).
Stephen Monsma, Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993).
Stephen Monsma, When Sacred and Secular Mix: Religious Nonprofit Organizations and Public Money (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).
Stephen Monsma, ed. Church-State Relations in Crisis: Debating Neutrality (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Stephen Monsma and J. Christopher Soper, eds. Equal Treatment of Religion in a Pluralistic Society (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998).