Faith, reason, and consent legislating morality in early American states /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
LFB Scholarly Pub.,
2008.
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| Series: | Law and society
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10430471 |
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.