Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.