Law And Religion In Colonial America
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Law And Religion In Colonial America
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Author : Scott Douglas Gerber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Law And Religion In Colonial America written by Scott Douglas Gerber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Church and state categories.
Law - charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions - mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. Indeed, the two colonies originally most opposed to religious liberty for anyone who did not share their views, Connecticut and Massachusetts, eventually became bastions of it. By focusing on law, Scott Douglas Gerber offers new insights about each of the five English American colonies founded for religious reasons - Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts - and challenges the conventional view that colonial America had a unified religious history.
Law And Religion In American History
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Author : Mark Douglas McGarvie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-19
Law And Religion In American History written by Mark Douglas McGarvie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-19 with History categories.
This is a sweeping history of the relationship between law and religion in America from the colonial era to the present day.
New World Faiths
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Author : Jon Butler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-12-31
New World Faiths written by Jon Butler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-31 with History categories.
Many people believe that the piety of the Pilgrims typified early American religion. However, by the 1730s Catholics, Jews, and Africans had joined Native Americans, Puritans, and numerous other Protestants in the colonies. Jon Butler launches his narrative with a description of the state of religious affairs in both the Old and New Worlds. He explores the failure of John Winthrop's goal to achieve Puritan perfection, the controversy over Anne Hutchinson's tenacious faith, the evangelizing stamina of ex-slave and Methodist preacher Absalom Jones, and the spiritual resilience of the Catawba Indians. The meeting of these diverse groups and their varied use of music, dance, and ritual produced an unprecedented evolution of religious practice, including the birth of revivals. And through their daily interactions, these Americans created a living foundation for the First Amendment. After Independence their active diversity of faiths led Americans to the groundbreaking idea that government should abandon the use of law to support any religious group and should instead guarantee free exercise of religion for everyone.
Religion And The State
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Author : Evarts Boutell Greene
language : en
Publisher: AMS Press
Release Date : 1941
Religion And The State written by Evarts Boutell Greene and has been published by AMS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Political Science categories.
Philosophy And Religion In Colonial America
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Author : Claude Milton Newlin
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1968
Philosophy And Religion In Colonial America written by Claude Milton Newlin and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with History categories.
The Common Law In Colonial America
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Author : William Edward Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Common Law In Colonial America written by William Edward Nelson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Law categories.
William E. Nelson here proposes a new beginning in the study of colonial legal history. Examining all archival legal material for the period 1607-1776 and synthesizing existing scholarship in a four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America shows how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies--initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives--slowly converged into a common American legal order that differed substantially from English common law.
Law And People In Colonial America
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Author : Peter Charles Hoffer
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-05
Law And People In Colonial America written by Peter Charles Hoffer and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with History categories.
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Law And Religion In Colonial America
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Author : Scott Douglas Gerber
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-31
Law And Religion In Colonial America written by Scott Douglas Gerber and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with History categories.
Law – charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions – mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. Indeed, the two colonies originally most opposed to religious liberty for anyone who did not share their views, Connecticut and Massachusetts, eventually became bastions of it. By focusing on law, Scott Douglas Gerber offers new insights about each of the five English American colonies founded for religious reasons – Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts – and challenges the conventional view that colonial America had a unified religious history.
Religion And American Law
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Author : Paul Finkelman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-12-16
Religion And American Law written by Paul Finkelman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-16 with Law categories.
The First Encyclopedia available On The Subject Of Religion And American Law The interplay of religion and law has long been a major political and social issue in the United States. From the Salem Witch Trials to the current debate over school vouchers, court rulings have had a profound effect on people's lives. Now, a new encyclopedia provides detailed entries on all of the major Supreme Court decisions dealing with church and state, topical and theoretical essays relating to the issue, and cogent biographies of those Justices whose decisions have achieved landmark status in the debate. Comprehensive In Coverage And Scope Encompassing cases from the colonial period to the Supreme Court's important decisions in 1997, this pioneering volume is written in a clear, concise style that will be useful to professionals and specialists and accessible by students. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, this encyclopedia will benefit all reference libraries, students of law and religion, and anyone working in the field of church and state.
The Common Law In Colonial America
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Author : William Edward Nelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Common Law In Colonial America written by William Edward Nelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Law categories.
William E. Nelson's first volume of the four-volume The Common Law of Colonial America (2008) established a new benchmark for study of colonial era legal history. Drawing from both a rich archival base and existing scholarship on the topic, the first volume demonstrated how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies-each of which had unique economies, political structures, and religious institutions -slowly converged into a common law order that differed substantially from English common law. The first volume focused on how the legal systems of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--contrasted with those of the New England colonies and traced these dissimilarities from the initial settlement of America until approximately 1660. In this new volume, Nelson brings the discussion forward, covering the years from 1660, which saw the Restoration of the British monarchy, to 1730. In particular, he analyzes the impact that an increasingly powerful British government had on the evolution of the common law in the New World. As the reach of the Crown extended, Britain imposed far more restrictions than before on the new colonies it had chartered in the Carolinas and the middle Atlantic region. The government's intent was to ensure that colonies' laws would align more tightly with British law. Nelson examines how the newfound coherence in British colonial policy led these new colonies to develop common law systems that corresponded more closely with one another, eliminating much of the variation that socio-economic differences had created in the earliest colonies. As this volume reveals, these trends in governance ultimately resulted in a tension between top-down pressures from Britain for a more uniform system of laws and bottom-up pressures from colonists to develop their own common law norms and preserve their own distinctive societies. Authoritative and deeply researched, the volumes in The Common Law of Colonial America will become the foundational resource for anyone interested the history of American law before the Revolution.