Faith, reason, and consent legislating morality in early American states /

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Autor Principal: Miller, Wm. G. (William George), 1968-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2008.
Series:Law and society (New York, N.Y.)
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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.