Faith, Reason, and Consent : Legislating Morality in Early American States Book

List of Tables

Ch. 1 Legislating Morality: Four Streams of Thought 1

Ch. 2 Three Grounding Principles for Moral Legislation: Popular Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Divine Law 17

Ch. 3 The Nature of God in Early American State Constitutions 29

Ch. 4 The Nature of Man in Early American State Constitutions 69

Ch. 5 The Constitutionality of Moral Legislation in Early State Constitutions 129

Ch. 6 A Constitutional Mandate: Moral Legislation in Post-Revolutionary Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Massachusetts 163

Ch. 7 Ambiguous Constitutionality: Moral Legislation in Post-Revolutionary Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, and South Carolina 201

Ch. 8 Contemporary Scholarship and Early American State Legislation of Morality 261

Ch. 9 Considerations for Legislation of Morality in the 21[superscript st] Century 277

References 285

Index 291