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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... difficulty arises when those who wield the powers of government repudiate the equality that forms the basis of self - government . In the minds of slaveowners , they had a right to govern not only themselves , but other selves as well ...
... difficulty arises when those who wield the powers of government repudiate the equality that forms the basis of self - government . In the minds of slaveowners , they had a right to govern not only themselves , but other selves as well ...
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... difficulty arose , according to Thurow , when the evidence of the truth of human equality to every American self waned as the antebellum period closed . The axiomatic " truth " for the body politic became a " proposition " to be proved ...
... difficulty arose , according to Thurow , when the evidence of the truth of human equality to every American self waned as the antebellum period closed . The axiomatic " truth " for the body politic became a " proposition " to be proved ...
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... , brave , and patriotic , but now lamented and departed , ” did the difficult work while " tis ours only " to make sure it passes on " to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know . " Although 24 Chapter Two.
... , brave , and patriotic , but now lamented and departed , ” did the difficult work while " tis ours only " to make sure it passes on " to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know . " Although 24 Chapter Two.
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... difficult to miss . This is all the more remarkable for their lack of direct biblical references . He mentions " God " only once , and there is considerable debate as to whether he inserted the reference in the final draft of the speech ...
... difficult to miss . This is all the more remarkable for their lack of direct biblical references . He mentions " God " only once , and there is considerable debate as to whether he inserted the reference in the final draft of the speech ...
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