The American Founding, Civic Virtue and Religion
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This essay focuses on the attempts to give institutional expression to religion. It surveys various solutions articulated by theorists, ancient and modem, to address the sometimes uneasy relationship between religion and the polity. The emphasis then shifts to the statesmen-theoreticians who gave constitutional form to the American regime. The experiments contained in the early state constitutions are the primary focus. Contemporary expositions of American civil religion are viewed in light of the founding experience.
2018 ◽
Vol 47
(5)
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pp. 1135-1161
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2016 ◽
Vol 15
(1-2)
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pp. 69-70
1981 ◽
Vol 20
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pp. 51
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2008 ◽
Vol 36
(2)
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pp. 154-165
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