The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution

The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution
ISBN-10
0674419898
ISBN-13
9780674419896
Category
Political Science
Pages
271
Language
English
Published
2014-03-10
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
John W. Compton

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.

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