Law and religion in American history : public values and private conscience / Mark Douglas McGarvie, College of William & Mary.
"This book furthers dialogue on the separation of church and state with an approach that emphasizes intellectual history and the constitutional theory that underlies American society. Mark Douglas McGarvie explains that the founding fathers of America considered the right of conscience to be an...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | New histories of American law.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: colonial America perpetuates state religion
- Revolution in thought and social organization: the legal hegemony of Jeffersonian liberalism, 1776-1828
- A Christian counter-revolution and a new vision of American society, 1828-1865
- Regulating behavior and teaching morals: the uses of religion, 1865-1937
- The rights revolution, 1937-2015
- Epilogue: the significance of history and a reconsideration of original intent.