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Keepers Of The New Covenant: The Puritan Legacy In American Constitutional Law, Daniel F. Piar
Keepers Of The New Covenant: The Puritan Legacy In American Constitutional Law, Daniel F. Piar
Daniel F. Piar
No abstract provided.
Keepers Of The New Covenant: The Puritan Legacy In American Constitutional Law, Daniel F. Piar
Keepers Of The New Covenant: The Puritan Legacy In American Constitutional Law, Daniel F. Piar
Daniel F. Piar
No abstract provided.
Keepers Of The New Covenant: The Puritan Legacy In American Constitutional Law, Daniel F. Piar
Keepers Of The New Covenant: The Puritan Legacy In American Constitutional Law, Daniel F. Piar
Daniel F. Piar
No abstract provided.
Keepers Of The New Covenant: The Puritan Legacy In American Constitutional Law, Daniel F. Piar
Keepers Of The New Covenant: The Puritan Legacy In American Constitutional Law, Daniel F. Piar
Daniel F. Piar
The thesis of the article is that the modern Supreme Court has come to use law just as the American Puritans did: as a tool for regulating and safeguarding the internal, spiritual needs of the populace. Through close readings of landmark civil rights cases, and of primary Puritan texts, I demonstrate that just as the Puritans were concerned with using civil authority to safeguard the soul’s progress to salvation, so does the modern Supreme Court use law to ensure what it sees as the proper conditions for spiritual development. I then remark on several implications of this parallel, including the …
A Welfare State Of Civil Rights: The Triumph Of The Therapeutic In American Constitutional Law, Daniel F. Piar
A Welfare State Of Civil Rights: The Triumph Of The Therapeutic In American Constitutional Law, Daniel F. Piar
Daniel F. Piar
This Article examines the influence of the therapeutic culture on the modern constitutional law of civil rights. The therapeutic culture is defined as one in which the central moral question is individual fulfillment. That culture has sprung up to replace older cultures such as Protestantism and classical republicanism, which are no longer capable of appealing to a nation as diverse as the United States. Instead of asking whether individuals or the nation conform to some external moral system, the therapeutic culture asks whether individuals are happy or fulfilled. This Article demonstrates that the therapeutic culture has had a significant effect …