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The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780674419889
DOI
10.4159/harvard.9780674419889
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1779005 bytes)
Pages
271\271
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 08:49:58

Description

John Compton shows how evangelicals, not New Deal reformers, paved the way for the most important constitutional developments of the twentieth century. Their early-1800s crusade to destroy property that made immorality possible challenged founding-era legal protections of slavery, lotteries, and liquor sales and opened the door to progressivism.

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