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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... no questioning of authority : for example , you cannot second - guess someone who ends all his statements with " Thus saith the Lord ! " Lincoln argued that Senator Stephen A. Douglas attempted to do as much by affirming 10 Chapter One.
... no questioning of authority : for example , you cannot second - guess someone who ends all his statements with " Thus saith the Lord ! " Lincoln argued that Senator Stephen A. Douglas attempted to do as much by affirming 10 Chapter One.
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... Douglas attempted to do as much by affirming without qualification the Dred Scott v . Sandford ( 1857 ) decision : This man [ Douglas ] sticks to a decision which forbids the people of a Territory from excluding slavery , and he does so ...
... Douglas attempted to do as much by affirming without qualification the Dred Scott v . Sandford ( 1857 ) decision : This man [ Douglas ] sticks to a decision which forbids the people of a Territory from excluding slavery , and he does so ...
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... Douglas Debates ( 1959 ) did the debate focus on an examination of this part of the question . Jaffa reaffirms Lincoln's right to bear the mantle of the Founding Fathers by his dedication to an American constitutional democracy ...
... Douglas Debates ( 1959 ) did the debate focus on an examination of this part of the question . Jaffa reaffirms Lincoln's right to bear the mantle of the Founding Fathers by his dedication to an American constitutional democracy ...
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... Douglas at Ottawa , Illinois ( 21 August 1858 ) , " in Collected Works , 3 : 27-28 . 15. Barton does , however , relate a quotation from J. G. Holland ( author of The Life of Abraham Lincoln , an 1865 biography ) that explains why ...
... Douglas at Ottawa , Illinois ( 21 August 1858 ) , " in Collected Works , 3 : 27-28 . 15. Barton does , however , relate a quotation from J. G. Holland ( author of The Life of Abraham Lincoln , an 1865 biography ) that explains why ...
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... Douglas Debates ( Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1973 ; reprint ed . , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1982 , © 1959 ) , chaps . 9 and 10 , " The Teaching Concerning Political Salvation " and " The Teaching ...
... Douglas Debates ( Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1973 ; reprint ed . , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1982 , © 1959 ) , chaps . 9 and 10 , " The Teaching Concerning Political Salvation " and " The Teaching ...
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