The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution / / John W. Compton.
The New Deal is often said to represent a sea change in American constitutional history, overturning a century of precedent to permit an expanded federal government, increased regulation of the economy, and eroded property protections. John Compton offers a surprising revision of this familiar narra...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (271 p.) :; 1 graph, 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Evangelical Challenge to American Constitutionalism
- 2. Moral Reform and Constitutional Adjudication, 1830-1854
- 3. The Triumph of Evangelical Public Morality in the States
- 4. The Triumph of Evangelical Public Morality in the Supreme Court
- 5. Reexamining the Collapse of the Old Order
- Conclusion. The Evangelical Origins of the Modern Constitutional Order
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index