Faith, Reason, and Consent: Legislating Morality in Early Amerian States

William George Miller - Faith, Reason, and Consent: Legislating Morality in Early Amerian States
Published: 2008-07-15 | ISBN: 1593322739 | PDF | 308 pages | 4 MB

Americans commonly insist that ruling power should not legislate morality. The early American state founders, revolutionaries known because their commitment to liberty, were equally concerned nearly what kind of morality both should and should not be legislated. In U.S. state constitutions and legislation, they exhibited a delivering to morality grounded primarily on the fixed principles of both natural rights and Christian theology. Scholars obtain often concluded that popular sovereignty emerged from the founding term as the predominant political ideal. However, the inherent and legislative tradition reveals something quite different that the principles of of nature rights and Christian theology were embraced precursory to, and in actuality provided the base for, the principle of popular supremacy in the minds of the commonwealth founders.