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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... 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 - abidingness and called on both ...
... 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 - abidingness and called on both ...
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... laws may always be as extensively accommodated to them , as a due regard to the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit . " To the Annual Meeting of Quakers ( September 1789 ) , " in George Washington : A ...
... laws may always be as extensively accommodated to them , as a due regard to the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit . " To the Annual Meeting of Quakers ( September 1789 ) , " in George Washington : A ...
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... laws of the country ; and never to tolerate their violation by others . " He hopes that this " reverence for the laws " will become the " political religion " of the nation . The only direct connection to religion that his political ...
... laws of the country ; and never to tolerate their violation by others . " He hopes that this " reverence for the laws " will become the " political religion " of the nation . The only direct connection to religion that his political ...
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... law - not that he judges at all of its merits , but because a decision of the court is to him a " Thus saith the Lord . " He places it on that ground alone , and you will bear in mind that thus committing himself unreservedly to this ...
... law - not that he judges at all of its merits , but because a decision of the court is to him a " Thus saith the Lord . " He places it on that ground alone , and you will bear in mind that thus committing himself unreservedly to this ...
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... laws . " In the second , Jaffa explicates Lincoln's 1842 speech to the Washington Temperance Society of Springfield , which augments Lincoln's 1838 remarks by moderating the religious fervor of moral reformers . Jaffa focuses , as ...
... laws . " In the second , Jaffa explicates Lincoln's 1842 speech to the Washington Temperance Society of Springfield , which augments Lincoln's 1838 remarks by moderating the religious fervor of moral reformers . Jaffa focuses , as ...
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Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-government Lucas E. Morel No preview available - 2000 |
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