The evangelical origins of the living constitution
By: John W. Compton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780674726796
Subjects: Constitutional history; Religion; Religion and law; Church and state; Evangelicalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: The evangelical challenge to American constitutionalism --; title: Moral reform and constitutional adjudication, 1830-1854 --; title: The triumph of evangelical public morality in the states --; title: The triumph of evangelical public morality in the Supreme Court --; title: Reexamining the collapse of the old order.