Church and State

Before starting your paper, use the Assignment Calculator (from the University of Minnesota Libraries) for help in determining your research timeline.

Get an overview of the historical and consititutional aspects of church and state by searching the Facts on File history databases.

Look for Supreme Court cases, analyses and some articles in CQ Supreme Court Collection.

To locate books, videos, DVDs available at MCC, use our catalog MIDAS. Check Worldcat for items we do not own (use the Interlibrary Loan forms to request the books, videos, DVDs). Remember that you can also check the e-book collection: Humanities e-Books.

Find law review articles by using Lexis-Nexis- Legal Research.
You can also use Lexis-Nexis to find newspaper articles. Remember to do a "Guided News Search", Step 1 "General News", Step 2 "Major Papers". The default time period is 6 months, but you can search "All of the dates" or anywhere in between.

Academic Search Premier is a general database (covering many different subject areas) Use it to search for journals and magazines.

Depending on the focus of your paper, you could also search for journal articles in JSTOR.

Try using the word religion instead of church and laws, constitution or government instead of state if you are having difficulty finding materials for your paper.

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Remember that the Reference Librarians are here to help!
Stop by the Reference Desk
Email us at refmcclibrary@yahoo.com
Call us at 732 906-2561
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