Amendment of the US Constitution. By taxing churches, the government would be empowered to penalize them if they default on their tax payments. The U.S. Supreme Court confirmed this potential inMcCullochv.Maryland(1819) when it stated: “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.”[12...
I conducted approximately ten months of ethnography and in-depth interviews at a majority Taiwanese Christian church, now known as Maryland Evangelical Church (MEC), and a majority mainland Chinese Christian church, now known as Maryland Baptist Church (MBC),5 as well as interviewed other diasporic...