TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,WmG.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Faith, reason, and consent: legislating morality in early American states 
T2  - Law and society
AV  - KF4541 .M55 2008eb
U1  - 342.7302/9 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - LFB Scholarly Pub.
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - United States
KW  - States
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Law and ethics
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1775-1783
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-290) and index; Legislating morality : four streams of thought -- Three grounding principles for moral legislation : popular sovereignty, natural law, and divine law -- The nature of God in early American state constitutions -- The nature of man in early American state constitutions -- The constitutionality of moral legislation in early state constitutions -- A constitutional mandate : moral legislation in post-revolutionary Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Massachusetts -- Ambiguous constitutionality : moral legislation in post-revolutionary Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, and South Carolina -- Contemporary scholarship and early American state legislation of morality -- Considerations for legislation of morality in the 21st century; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10430471
ER  -