Moral Minority Our Skeptical Founding Fathers

Name: Moral Minority Our Skeptical Founding Fathers
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ISBN: 9781566637510

ISBN-10: 1566637511

ISBN-13: 9781566637510

Edition: 2007

Authors: Brooke Allen

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In her lively refutation of modern claims about America's religious origins, Brooke Allen looks back at the late eighteenth century and shows decisively that the United States was founded not on Christian principles at all but on Enlightenment ideas. Moral Minority presents a powerful case that the unique legal framework the Founding Fathers created was designed according to the humanist ideals of Enlightenment thinkers: God entered the picture only as a very minor player, and Jesus Christ was conspicuous by his absence. The guiding spirit of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, Ms. Allen explains, was not Jesus Christ but John Locke. In direct and accessible prose,…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 9/9/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.86" wide x 8.61" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



Franklin



Washington



Adams



Jefferson



Madison



Hamilton



1787 and Beyond



The World That Produced the Founders



Two Letters from Jefferson on the Common Law and Christianity



Madison's "Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments"


Notes


A Note on Sources


Index