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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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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
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Author/Creator:Ellis, Jenna, author.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Farris, Michael, author of foreword.
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Published/Created:Bloomington, IN : Westbow Press, [2015]
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Call Number: KF4550 .E45 2015
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Constitutions--United States.
Constitutions--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Constitutional law--United States.
Constitutional amendments--United States.
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Description:xxxi, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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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.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210).
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ISBN:9781512722758 (sc)
1512722758 (sc)
9781512722765
1512722766
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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.