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New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2008

1 online resource (ix, 298 p.) : ill

ISBN 1593322739 (alk. paper)

ISBN 9781593322731 (alk. paper)

Law and society

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)923650253