The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution

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Book

Authors

John W. Compton

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United States, Religion, Politics & State, General, Legal History, Church & State, Constitutions, 19th Century, Constitutional Law

Description

John Compton shows how evangelicals, not New Deal reformers, paved the way for the most important constitutional developments of the twentieth century. Their early-1800s crusade to destroy property that made immorality possible challenged founding-era legal protections of slavery, lotteries, and liquor sales and opened the door to progressivism. - from Amzon

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