Law and Religion in American History : Public Values and Private Conscience (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Prologue: colonial America perpetuates state religion; 2. Revolution in thought and social organization: the legal; hegemony of Jeffersonian liberalism, 1776?1828; 3. A Christian counter-revolution and a new vision of American society, 1828?65; 4. Regulating behavior and teaching morals: the uses of religion, 1865?1937; 5. The rights revolution, 1937?2014; 6. Epilogue: the significance of history and a reconsideration of original intent; Bibliographic essay; Index.