LEADER 04149nam 2200661 450 001 9910825594403321 005 20230803195410.0 010 $a0-674-41989-8 010 $a0-674-41988-X 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674419889 035 $a(CKB)2670000000543823 035 $a(EBL)3301394 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133797 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11626458 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133797 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11160682 035 $a(PQKB)10473750 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301394 035 $a(DE-B1597)427280 035 $a(OCoLC)871257897 035 $a(OCoLC)979752858 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674419889 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301394 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10841958 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000543823 100 $a20140314h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe evangelical origins of the living constitution /$fJohn W. Compton 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-72679-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Evangelical Challenge to American Constitutionalism --$t2. Moral Reform and Constitutional Adjudication, 1830-1854 --$t3. The Triumph of Evangelical Public Morality in the States --$t4. The Triumph of Evangelical Public Morality in the Supreme Court --$t5. Reexamining the Collapse of the Old Order --$tConclusion. The Evangelical Origins of the Modern Constitutional Order --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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 1800's, 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. 606 $aReligion and law$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aEvangelicalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aConstitutional law$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aChurch and state$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xReligion 615 0$aReligion and law$xHistory. 615 0$aEvangelicalism$xHistory 615 0$aConstitutional law$xHistory. 615 0$aChurch and state$xHistory. 676 $a342.7302/9 700 $aCompton$b John W.$f1977-$01687297 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825594403321 996 $aThe evangelical origins of the living constitution$94060671 997 $aUNINA