Faith, reason, and consent : legislating morality in early American states / / Wm. G. Miller.
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| Superior document: | Law and society |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Law and society (New York, N.Y.)
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| Physical Description: | ix, 298 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.