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The Bible And The Constitution: Reading Methods, Relevance, And Authority, Gaylen P. Leverett
The Bible And The Constitution: Reading Methods, Relevance, And Authority, Gaylen P. Leverett
Helm's School of Government Conference - American Revival: Citizenship & Virtue
Politics and religion have united and/or divided people groups for as long as records have been kept. Currently most of the divisiveness tormenting America’s potential for harmony is in these two fields. The debates have many fronts and factions. This paper is an attempt to bring some clarity to the debate between religious conservatives and progressives over how the Constitution should be read. Conservatives are so named because they wish to preserve older interpretations which they believe best represent the original decisions – decisions conservatives for the most part still endorse. Progressives, on the other hand, argue that our new …