Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-governmentLucas Morel examines what the public life of Abraham Lincoln teaches about the role of religion in a self-governing society. Lincoln's understanding of the requirements of republican government led him to accommodate and direct religious sentiment toward responsible self-government. As a successful republic requires a moral or self-controlled people, Lincoln believed, the moral and religious sensibilities of a society should be nurtured. |
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... American Self-government Lucas E. Morel. To my wife , Cherie , our children , Luke and Hannah , my father , Carlos , and the memory of my mother , Maria ( 1941-1995 ) I am exceedingly anxious that this Union , the Constitution.
... American Self-government Lucas E. Morel. To my wife , Cherie , our children , Luke and Hannah , my father , Carlos , and the memory of my mother , Maria ( 1941-1995 ) I am exceedingly anxious that this Union , the Constitution.
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... Constitution , and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made , and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty ...
... Constitution , and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made , and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty ...
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... Constitution " and " reverence for the laws " to become " the political religion of the nation . " 2 Lincoln believed that the perpetuation of the free government established by the American Revolution depended on this patriotic law ...
... Constitution " and " reverence for the laws " to become " the political religion of the nation . " 2 Lincoln believed that the perpetuation of the free government established by the American Revolution depended on this patriotic law ...
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... constitutional government : namely , theocratic absolutism , which would undermine a regime based on public deliberation as opposed to a theological litmus test . The dependence of self - government on public morality , influenced by ...
... constitutional government : namely , theocratic absolutism , which would undermine a regime based on public deliberation as opposed to a theological litmus test . The dependence of self - government on public morality , influenced by ...
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... Constitution : Weld and his associates developed a constitutional argument that even as early as 1835 described the treatment in the North of free Negroes and abolitionists as " denials of rights to the equal protection of the laws ...
... Constitution : Weld and his associates developed a constitutional argument that even as early as 1835 described the treatment in the North of free Negroes and abolitionists as " denials of rights to the equal protection of the laws ...
Contents
Religious Politics and Political Religion | 7 |
The Political Utility of Religion | 23 |
The Political Accommodation of Religion | 85 |
The Political Vices of Religion An Interpretation of the Temperance Address | 125 |
The Political Limits of Reason and Religion An Interpretation of the Second Inaugural Address | 163 |
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Index to Lincolns Speeches and Writings | 233 |
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