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Foreword

Preface

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Unit One The Political and Religious Backdrop Of The Founding Of The United States   3
       
Chapter One The Reformation's Role in Advancing Political and Religious Liberty   5
 

1.1 Martin Luther's Protest

1.2 Calvin and the Presbyterians

1.3 Calvin's Resistance Theory

1.4 The Tudor Family and the English Reformation

1.5 The Stuart Family and the Divine Right of Kings

 


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Chapter Two Two Revolutions in England Set the Stage for America's Birth   21
 

2.1 The Civil War (Puritan Revolution) in England and Rutherford's Lex Rex

2.2 The Westminster Assembly and Confession

2.3 The Defeat of Charles I and the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell

2.4 The Restoration and John Locke

2.5 Excursion: The Enlightenment

2.6 The Whigs and Algernon Sidney

2.7 The Glorious Revolution

2.8 John Locke's Political Philosophy

 

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Chapter Three The Flight of the Reformation to America   39
 

3.1 Basing Government upon the Consent of the Governed

3.2 A Government of Laws, and Not of Men

3.3 Calvin's Dilemma

3.4 The Puritan Predicament in America

3.4.1 Roger Williams

3.4.2 Anne Hutchinson

3.4.3 Puritan Desperation

3.4.4 The Salem Witch Trials

3.5 The First Great Awakening

3.6 The Impact of the Awakening

 

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Unit Two The Socio-Cultural Backdrop For The Founding Of The United States   59
       
Chapter Four The English Common Law: Our National Birthright   61
 

4.1 The Common Law and Christian Morality

4.2 The Common Law and the Founding

4.2.1 The Magna Carta

4.2.2 Edward Coke

4.2.3 William Blackstone

4.2.4 Thomas Jefferson

 

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Chapter Five Colonial Education   73
 

5.1 The New England Primer

5.2 Latin and Apprenticeships

5.3 America's First Four Colleges

5.3.1 Harvard

5.3.2 The College of William and Mary

5.3.3 Yale

5.3.4 Princeton (The College of New Jersey)

 

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Chapter Six Family Life in New England   87
 

6.1 Marriage and the Proper Role of Love

6.2 The Role of Women: Domestic Affairs

6.3 The Children: Discerning Their Vocatio

 

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Chapter Seven Nomenclature   97
 

7.1 The Medieval Context

7.2 Early American Names

7.3 Why Old Testament Names?

7.4 Why Descriptive Names?

7.5 The New England Baby-Naming Book: The Bible

 

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Unit Three America's Passage to Liberty   109
       
Chapter Eight The American Revolution   111
 

8.1 Between Plymouth Rock and Independence Hall

8.2 The Religious Controversy That Ignited the Revolution

8.3 Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

8.4 The “Presbyterian Rebellion”

 

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Chapter Nine Two Founding Documents   127
 

9.1 The Declaration of Independence

9.2 The Law of Nature and Nature's God

9.3 Self-Evident Truths, Inalienable Rights, and Slavery

9.4 Consent of the Governed

9.5 Relying on Divine Providence

9.6 The Federal Constitution

9.7 The Nature of Federalism

9.8 The Federalist Papers

9.9 The Constitution and Religious Language

 

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Chapter Ten Separation of Church and State   153
 

10.1 The Religious Climate in Colonial Virginia

10.2 Madison and Jefferson

10.3 The Virginia Bill of Rights

10.4 Taxes and the Use of Force

10.5 Jefferson 's Statute for Religious Liberty

10.6 The Baptist Influence on Jefferson

10.7 What Jefferson Said

10.8 Religious Taxes

10.9 James Madison's Reply: The Memorial and Remonstrance

10.10 Madison 's Impact

10.11 Contemporary Views

10.12 Conclusion

 

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Glossary

Notes

Index

Authors and Contributors

Credits

   

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