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• Title:The Legal basis for a moral constitution : a guide for Christians to understand America's constitutional crisis / Jenna Ellis, ESQ. ; foreword by Michael Farris, J.D., LL. M.
  
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• Variant Title:Guide for Christians to understand America's constitutional crisis
  
• Author/Creator:Ellis, Jenna, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Farris, Michael, author of foreword.
  
• Published/Created:Bloomington, IN : Westbow Press, [2015]
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KF4550 .E45 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Constitutions--United States.
  Constitutions--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
  Constitutional law--United States.
  Constitutional amendments--United States.
  
• Description:xxxi, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:America is in the midst of a cultural and constitutional law crisis that began more than sixty years ago and was further exacerbated by the 2015 Supreme Court same-sex marriage decision. How did we become a culture that lacks objective morality and embraces secular ideas, hinging on the majority whim of nine justices? How do we get back to being a biblically moral, upright society and recognizing the U.S. Constitution as supreme law of the land? In The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution, Jenna Ellis makes a compelling case for the true roots of Americas Founding Documents in objective morality and how our system of government is founded upon the Christian worldview and Gods unchanging law, not a secular humanist worldview. She provides a unique perspective of the Founding Fathers as lawyers and how they understood the legitimate authority of biblical truth and appealed directly to Gods law for the foundation of America. Weaving together the legal history and underpinning worldview shifts in American culture, Ellis advocates how Christians must change the basic reasoning of our appeal and effectively engage our culture. Finally, she proposes the solution to reclaim objective, biblical morality in law that the Founders themselves provided for through Article V of the U.S. Constitution. This book is for every Christian who seeks to understand the times and our constitutional and cultural crisis.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210).
  
• ISBN:9781512722758 (sc)
  1512722758 (sc)
  9781512722765
  1512722766
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Progressive Government's Biggest Problem: Morality
  ch. 2 Founders and their Relationship to the Law
  ch. 3 Understanding the Law and its Authority and Legitimacy
  Divine Law
  Social Contract Theory
  Divine Law vs. Social Contract Theory
  ch. 4 Founding Documents: A Purposeful Hierarchy
  ch. 5 Understanding Originalism: Principles to Correct Textual Interpretation
  Principle 1 Authorial Meaning
  Principle 2 Exclusive Original Meaning
  Principle 3 Objective, Concrete and Binding Meaning
  Principle 4 Contextual Meaning
  Principle 5 Meaning through Consideration of the Whole
  ch. 6 Declaration of Independence
  ch. 7 Federalist Papers
  ch. 8 United States Constitution
  Bill of Rights
  ch. 9 Theories of Constitutional Law: Judicial Restraint vs. Judicial Activism
  ch. 10 Constitutional Law Case Studies: A Systematic Replacement of Divine Law with Social Contract Theory
  Fourteenth Amendment, 1868
  Everson v. Board of Education, 1947
  Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965
  Lemon v. Kurtzman, 1971
  Roe v. Wade, 1973
  City of Boerne v. Flores, 1997
  Lawrence v. Texas, 2003
  Van Orden v. Perry, 2005
  Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015
  ch. 11 On Discoverable Morality
  ch. 12 Religious Freedom and the U.S. Constitution
  ch. 13 Reclaiming the Moral Basis of U.S. Constitutional Interpretation and Law
  Article V Convention of States.