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Faith, reason, and consent: legislating morality in early American states

By Miller , William George

Book information

Publisher
LFB Scholarly Pub
Year
2008
ISBN
9781593323646, 1593323646, 978-1-59332-273-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4445716 bytes)
Series
Law and society (New York N.Y.)
Pages
298\309
Time added
2019-09-25 00:04:59
Constitutional history;United States;States;Consti

Description

Content: 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.

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