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Faith, reason, and consent : legislating morality in early American states
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- Creator
- Wm. G. Miller
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2008
- Physical Details
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- ix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1593322739, 9781593322731, 1593323646, 9781593323646
- OCLC
- ocn221150736, ocn300319016, ocn923650253
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-290) and index
- Legislating morality : four streams of thought -- Three grounding principles for moral legislation : popular sovereignty, natural law, and divine law -- The nature of God in early American state constitutions -- The nature of man in early American state constitutions -- The constitutionality of moral legislation in early state constitutions -- A constitutional mandate : moral legislation in post-revolutionary Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Massachusetts -- Ambiguous constitutionality : moral legislation in post-revolutionary Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, and South Carolina -- Contemporary scholarship and early American state legislation of morality -- Considerations for legislation of morality in the 21st century