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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... the Abraham Lincoln Association 20, no. 1 (Winter 1999): 1-34. Copyright 1999 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Introduction The famed escaped slave and abolitionist orator Frederick Douglass. Acknowledgments.
... the Abraham Lincoln Association 20, no. 1 (Winter 1999): 1-34. Copyright 1999 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Introduction The famed escaped slave and abolitionist orator Frederick Douglass. Acknowledgments.
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... slave and abolitionist orator Frederick Douglass once remarked , " We all know Abraham Lincoln by heart . " The sentiment is still true today . We feel somehow that we know him , that he's a part of us , and so much a part of what it ...
... slave and abolitionist orator Frederick Douglass once remarked , " We all know Abraham Lincoln by heart . " The sentiment is still true today . We feel somehow that we know him , that he's a part of us , and so much a part of what it ...
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... Slave and Half - Free ( 16 April 1883 ) , " in The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass , Philip S. Foner , ed . , 5 vols . ( New York : International Publishers Co. , Inc. , 1955 ) , 4 : 368 . 2. " Address Before the Young Men's ...
... Slave and Half - Free ( 16 April 1883 ) , " in The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass , Philip S. Foner , ed . , 5 vols . ( New York : International Publishers Co. , Inc. , 1955 ) , 4 : 368 . 2. " Address Before the Young Men's ...
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... slave and free . " In this context , Lincoln saw the threat that fanaticism - for example , certain abolition and temperance movements - posed to constitutional government . Abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison declared they would ...
... slave and free . " In this context , Lincoln saw the threat that fanaticism - for example , certain abolition and temperance movements - posed to constitutional government . Abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison declared they would ...
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... slavery , their repudiation of constitutional means set them at odds against the very self - government for which they labored on behalf of enslaved blacks . As " human wisdom " could never bring " the governments of this world " into ...
... slavery , their repudiation of constitutional means set them at odds against the very self - government for which they labored on behalf of enslaved blacks . As " human wisdom " could never bring " the governments of this world " into ...
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