Beschreibung:
This is a sweeping history of the relationship between law and religion in America from the colonial era to the present day.
Introduction; 1. Prologue: colonial America perpetuates state religion; 2. Revolution in thought and social organization: the legal; hegemony of Jeffersonian liberalism, 1776¿1828; 3. A Christian counter-revolution and a new vision of American society, 1828¿65; 4. Regulating behavior and teaching morals: the uses of religion, 1865¿1937; 5. The rights revolution, 1937¿2014; 6. Epilogue: the significance of history and a reconsideration of original intent; Bibliographic essay; Index.