Faith, reason, and consent
Subtitle: legislating morality in early American states
By: Wm. G. Miller.
Series: Law and society
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.; LFB Scholarly Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781593322731
Subjects: Constitutional history -- United States -- States; Constitutional law -- United States -- Religious aspects; Law and ethics -- History -- 18th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Legislating morality : four streams of thought; title: Three grounding principles for moral legislation : popular sovereignty, natural law, and divine law; title: The nature of God in early American state constitutions; title: The nature of man in early American state constitutions; title: The constitutionality of moral legislation in early state constitutions; title: A constitutional mandate : moral legislation in post-revolutionary Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Massachusetts; title: Ambiguous constitutionality : moral legislation in post-revolutionary Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, and South Carolina; title: Contemporary scholarship and early American state legislation of morality; title: Considerations for legislation of morality in the 21st century.