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Religious Convictions And Political Choice: Some Further Thoughts, Kent Greenawalt Jan 1990

Religious Convictions And Political Choice: Some Further Thoughts, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

Let me start by putting my topic in a concrete context. Suppose a statute is offered to relieve animals of the oppressively cramped conditions of modern factory farming. Advocates claim that calves, lambs, pigs, and chickens should have a better quality of life before being slaughtered for food. Opponents argue that factory farming helps provide tasty, inexpensive meat and that farmers should be free to decide how to treat animals that they own. At stake in the decision whether to restrict farmers is some balancing of animal interests against human interests. In our relatively wealthy society the human interests are …

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Church-State Relations And Religious Convictions, R. Kent Greenawalt Jan 1987

Church-State Relations And Religious Convictions, R. Kent Greenawalt

Cleveland State Law Review

My overall concern is with the proper place of religious convictions in lawmaking in our society. My special focus is on the place of religious convictions in the political resolution of church-state issues. Though I shall comment in passing on various constitutional issues, the main thrust of my comments also lies within the domain of political philosophy. I agree that the promotion of religious views and practices is not the business of the state in our society. Nevertheless, I strongly resist the idea that either this premise or any other premise underlying our liberal democracy requires good liberal citizens to …

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Political And Religious Disestablishment, Michael W. Mcconnell May 1986

Political And Religious Disestablishment, Michael W. Mcconnell

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

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A Comment On Religious Convictions And Lawmaking, John H. Garvey Jan 1986

A Comment On Religious Convictions And Lawmaking, John H. Garvey

Michigan Law Review

Professor Kent Greenawalt's Cooley Lectures on Religious Convictions and Lawmaking are fresh, honest, and thoughtful. They offer some troubling questions for liberal democratic theorists (Greenawalt names Bruce Ackerman and John Rawls as representatives of the class) who argue that good citizens and officials should set their religious co~victions aside when they deal with political questions. Greenawalt contends that religious liberal democrats are not committed to such a program of self-denial - that sometimes (though not always) political judgments can rest on religious convictions. I think he is right but too modest about the implications of his thesis.

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Religious Convictions And Lawmaking, Kent Greenawalt Dec 1985

Religious Convictions And Lawmaking, Kent Greenawalt

Michigan Law Review

In Part I, I introduce the subject of liberal democracy, rationality, and religion. I explain briefly why this subject merits our attention. I then indicate variant positions about it and my own summary conclusions. I develop a partial model of our liberal democracy from which the issue can be addressed in context. I next consider two kinds of concrete social issues, consenting sexual acts among adults and the protection of animals and the natural environment. During this treatment I indicate more fully how religious convictions affect judgments about desirable laws, and I analyze the claim that good citizens should not …

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Religious Convictions And Lawmaking, Kent Greenawalt Jan 1985

Religious Convictions And Lawmaking, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

In this Article, presented as the 1985-86 Thomas M. Cooley Lectures at the University of Michigan School of Law on March 10-12, 1986, Professor Greenawalt addresses the role that religious conviction properly plays in the liberal citizen's political decisionmaking in a liberal democratic society. Rejecting the notion that all political questions can be decided on rational secular grounds, Professor Greenawalt argues that the liberal democratic citizen may rely on his religious convictions when secular morality is unable to resolve issues critical to a political decision. The examples of animal rights and environmental protection, abortion, and welfare assistance illustrate situations where …

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Civil Government. Its Origin, Mission, And Destiny, And The Christian's Relation To It., David Lipscomb Jan 1889

Civil Government. Its Origin, Mission, And Destiny, And The Christian's Relation To It., David Lipscomb

Stone-Campbell Books

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