Author: Joseph Hawley
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Joseph Hawley's Criticism of the Constitution of Massachusetts: Joseph Hawley's protest to the Constitutional Convention of 1780
Author: Joseph Hawley
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Publisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Joseph Hawley's Criticism of the Constitution of Massachusetts
Author: Joseph Hawley
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Joseph Hawley's Criticism of the Constitution of Massachusetts: Joseph Hawley's protest to the Constitutional Convention of 1780
Author: Joseph Hawley
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Writings on American History
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Smith College Studies in History
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Studies in History
Author: Smith College
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Separation of Church and State
Author: Philip Hamburger
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067424642X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never invoked this principle. Although Thomas Jefferson and others retrospectively claimed that the First Amendment separated church and state, separation became part of American constitutional law only much later. Hamburger shows that separation became a constitutional freedom largely through fear and prejudice. Jefferson supported separation out of hostility to the Federalist clergy of New England. Nativist Protestants (ranging from nineteenth-century Know Nothings to twentieth-century members of the K.K.K.) adopted the principle of separation to restrict the role of Catholics in public life. Gradually, these Protestants were joined by theologically liberal, anti-Christian secularists, who hoped that separation would limit Christianity and all other distinct religions. Eventually, a wide range of men and women called for separation. Almost all of these Americans feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and, in response to their fears, they increasingly perceived religious liberty to require a separation of church from state. American religious liberty was thus redefined and even transformed. In the process, the First Amendment was often used as an instrument of intolerance and discrimination.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067424642X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never invoked this principle. Although Thomas Jefferson and others retrospectively claimed that the First Amendment separated church and state, separation became part of American constitutional law only much later. Hamburger shows that separation became a constitutional freedom largely through fear and prejudice. Jefferson supported separation out of hostility to the Federalist clergy of New England. Nativist Protestants (ranging from nineteenth-century Know Nothings to twentieth-century members of the K.K.K.) adopted the principle of separation to restrict the role of Catholics in public life. Gradually, these Protestants were joined by theologically liberal, anti-Christian secularists, who hoped that separation would limit Christianity and all other distinct religions. Eventually, a wide range of men and women called for separation. Almost all of these Americans feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and, in response to their fears, they increasingly perceived religious liberty to require a separation of church from state. American religious liberty was thus redefined and even transformed. In the process, the First Amendment was often used as an instrument of intolerance and discrimination.
Religion and the American Mind
Author: Alan Heimert
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597526142
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
Exploring the richness of American thought and experience in the mid-eighteenth century, Alan Heimert develops the intellectual and cultural significance of the religious divisions and debates engendered by one of the most critical episodes in American intellectual history, the Great Awakening of the 1740's. The author's concern throughout is to discover what were the essential issues in a dispute that was not so much a controversy between theologians as a vital competition for the ideological allegiance of the American people. This is not a standard history of any one area of ideas. Mr. Heimert's sources include nearly everything published in America from 1735. His study, in its range and conception, is an original contribution to an understanding of the relationship between colonial religious thought and the evolution of American history.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597526142
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
Exploring the richness of American thought and experience in the mid-eighteenth century, Alan Heimert develops the intellectual and cultural significance of the religious divisions and debates engendered by one of the most critical episodes in American intellectual history, the Great Awakening of the 1740's. The author's concern throughout is to discover what were the essential issues in a dispute that was not so much a controversy between theologians as a vital competition for the ideological allegiance of the American people. This is not a standard history of any one area of ideas. Mr. Heimert's sources include nearly everything published in America from 1735. His study, in its range and conception, is an original contribution to an understanding of the relationship between colonial religious thought and the evolution of American history.
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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