Legal centralization and the birth of the secular state
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0147-5967/$ see front matter 2013 Association for Comparative Economic Studies Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2013.08.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (N.D. Johnson), [email protected] (M. Koyama). 1 See for instance Finke (1991) and Nussbaum (2008) on the First Amendment and Kamen (1967), Head (1998), Laursen (1999), MacCulloch (2003 (2003), and Gregory (2012) on the Reformation. As John Rawls notes, ‘the historical origin of political liberalism is the Reformation and its aftermath, long controversies over religious toleration in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’ (Rawls, 1993, xxiv). 2 As such, we contribute to the growing literature on the importance of state capacity for modern economic development (Besley and Persson, 2
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