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100	1		_aCompton, John W., _d1977- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe evangelical origins of the living constitution / _cJohn W. Compton.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2014.
300			_a261 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe evangelical challenge to American constitutionalism -- Moral reform and constitutional adjudication, 1830-1854 -- The triumph of evangelical public morality in the states -- The triumph of evangelical public morality in the Supreme Court -- Reexamining the collapse of the old order -- The evangelical origins of the modern constitutional order.
520			_a"The New Deal is often said to represent a sea change in American constitutional history, overturning a century of precedent to permit an expanded federal government, increased regulation of the economy, and eroded property protections. John Compton offers a surprising revision of this familiar narrative, showing that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestants, not New Deal reformers, paved the way for the most important constitutional developments of the twentieth century. Following the great religious revivals of the early 1800s, American evangelicals embarked on a crusade to eradicate immorality from national life by destroying the property that made it possible. Their cause represented a direct challenge to founding-era legal protections of sinful practices such as slavery, lottery gambling, and buying and selling liquor. Although evangelicals urged the judiciary to bend the rules of constitutional adjudication on behalf of moral reform, antebellum judges usually resisted their overtures. But after the Civil War, American jurists increasingly acquiesced in the destruction of property on moral grounds. In the early twentieth century, Oliver Wendell Holmes and other critics of laissez-faire constitutionalism used the judiciary's acceptance of evangelical moral values to demonstrate that conceptions of property rights and federalism were fluid, socially constructed, and subject to modification by democratic majorities. The result was a progressive constitutional regime -- rooted in evangelical Protestantism -- that would hold sway for the rest of the twentieth century"-- _cUnedited summary from book jacket.
650		0	_aReligion and law _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aEvangelicalism _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aConstitutional history _zUnited States.
651		0	_aUnited States _xReligion.
650		0	_aChurch and state _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		7	_aChurch and state. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00860509
650		7	_aConstitutional history. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00875777
650		7	_aEvangelicalism. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00917002
650		7	_aReligion. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01093763
650		7	_aReligion and law. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01093835
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
648		7	_a1800 - 1899 _2fast
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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