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From the early days of European settlement in North America,
Christianity has had a profound impact on American law and culture.
This volume profiles nineteen of America's most influential
Christian jurists from the early colonial era to the present day.
Anyone interested in American legal history and jurisprudence, the
role Christianity has played throughout the nation's history, and
the relationship between faith and law will enjoy this worthy and
unique study. The jurists covered in this collection were pious men
and women, but that does not mean they agreed on how faith should
inform law. From Roger Williams and John Cotton to Antonin Scalia
and Mary Ann Glendon, America's great Christian jurists have
brought their faith to bear on the practice of law in different
ways and to different effects.
"The Sacred Rights of Conscience "provides students and scholars a
rich collection of primary sources that illuminate the discussions
and debates about religious liberty in the American founding era.
This compilation of primary documents provides a thorough and
balanced examination of the evolving relationship between public
religion and American culture, from pre-colonial biblical and
European sources to the early nineteenth century, to allow the
reader to explore the social and political forces that defined the
concept of religious liberty and shaped American church-state
relations.
Including material that has been previously unavailable or hard to
find, "The Sacred Rights of Conscience" contains original documents
from both public and private papers, such as constitutions,
statutes, legislative resolutions, speeches, sermons, newspapers,
letters, and diary entries. These documents provide a vivid
reminder that religion was a dynamic factor in shaping American
social, legal, and political culture and that there has been a
struggle since the inception of the Republic to define the
prudential and constitutional role of religion in public culture.
Daniel L. Dreisbach is William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and
Public Life for the James Madison Program in American Ideals and
Institutions at Princeton University and professor in the School of
Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C.
Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of
Political Science at George Fox University.
The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a
hotly debated question. Some historians have regarded the faith of
a few famous founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, and Thomas Paine, as evidence that the founders were
deists who advocated the strict separation of church and state.
Popular Christian polemicists, on the other hand, have attempted to
show that virtually all of the founders were orthodox Christians in
favor of state support for religion. As the essays in this volume
demonstrate, a diverse array of religious traditions informed the
political culture of the American founding. Faith and the Founders
of the American Republic includes studies both of minority faiths,
such as Islam and Judaism, and of major traditions, such as
Calvinism. It also includes nuanced analysis of specific
founders-Quaker John Dickinson, prominent Baptists Isaac Backus and
John Leland, and Federalist Gouverneur Morris, among many
others-with attention to their personal histories, faiths,
constitutional philosophies, and views on the relationship between
religion and the state. This volume will be a crucial resource for
anyone interested in the place of faith in the founding of the
American constitutional republic, from political, religious,
historical, and legal perspectives.
American Exceptionalism provokes intense debates culturally,
economically, politically, and socially. This collection, edited by
Charles W. Dunn of Regent University's Robertson School of
Government, brings together analysis of the idea's origins, history
and future. Contributors include: Hadley Arkes, Michael Barone,
James W. Ceasar, Charles W. Dunn, Daniel L. Dreisbach, T. David
Gordon, Steven F. Hayward, Hugh Heclo, Marvin J. Folkertsma,
William Kristol, and George H. Nash. While many now argue against
the policies and ideology of American Exceptionalism as antiquated
and expired, the authors collected here make the bold claim that a
closer reading of our own history reveals that there is still an
exceptional aspect of American thought, identity and government
worth advancing and protecting. It will be the challenge of the
coming American generations to both refine and examine what we mean
when we call America "exceptional," and this book provides readers
a first step towards a necessary understanding of the exceptional
purpose, progress and promise of the United States of America.
'In God We Trust?' The separation of church and state is a widely
contested topic in the American political arena. Whether for or
against, debaters frequently base their arguments in the
Constitution and the principles of the American founding. However,
Americans' perception of the founding has narrowed greatly over the
years, focusing on a handful of eminent statesmen. By exploring the
work of nine founding fathers, including often overlooked figures
like John Carroll and George Mason, The Founders on God and
Government provides a more complete picture of America's origins.
The contributors, all noted scholars, examine the lives of
individual founders and investigate the relationship between their
religious beliefs and political thought. Bringing together original
documents and analytical essays, this book is an excellent addition
to the library of literature on the founding, and sheds new light
on religion's contributions to American civic culture.
Everson Revisited explores the consequences and future implications
of Everson v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case
that permitted the use of tax revenue to transport students to
parochial schools while simultaneously calling for an impenetrable
'wall of separation' between religion and public schools.
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