Covenant and Constitutionalism: The Great Frontier and the Matrix of Federal DemocracyTransaction Publishers, 1998 - 287 páginas This volume traces the trends and the developing relationships of constitutionalism and covenant that ultimately led to the transformation of the latter into the former. Elazar explores the paths that emerged out of the constitutionalized covenantal tradition in Europe such as federalism, communitarianism, and the cooperative movement. |
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... Biblical Israel : Biblical Foundations and Jewish Expressions Covenant and Commonwealth : From Christian Separation through the Protestant Reformation Volume III Covenant and Constitutionalism : The Great Frontier and the Matrix of ...
... Biblical Israel : Biblical Foundations and Jewish Expressions Covenant and Commonwealth : From Christian Separation through the Protestant Reformation Volume III Covenant and Constitutionalism : The Great Frontier and the Matrix of ...
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... biblical idea of covenant had , in due course , given birth to the late medieval Protestant pursuit of commonwealth in a polity constructed on the proper covenantal principles . These principles subsequently were transformed into the ...
... biblical idea of covenant had , in due course , given birth to the late medieval Protestant pursuit of commonwealth in a polity constructed on the proper covenantal principles . These principles subsequently were transformed into the ...
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... biblical covenantal mono- theism whereby humans were envisaged as entering into morally grounded pacts with God out of which came , inter alia , the covenant with Noah binding all of humanity and that with the people Israel formed ...
... biblical covenantal mono- theism whereby humans were envisaged as entering into morally grounded pacts with God out of which came , inter alia , the covenant with Noah binding all of humanity and that with the people Israel formed ...
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... biblical Israel . If Americans were not the chosen people , they were at least , in his eyes , an " almost chosen people . " The content and every cadence of Lincoln's remarks at Independence Hall and on similar occasions suggest that ...
... biblical Israel . If Americans were not the chosen people , they were at least , in his eyes , an " almost chosen people . " The content and every cadence of Lincoln's remarks at Independence Hall and on similar occasions suggest that ...
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... biblical idea of covenant . While often more latent than manifest since the days of the Puritans , and partially submerged within other streams and eddies of American thought and culture especially secular constitutionalism - covenant ...
... biblical idea of covenant . While often more latent than manifest since the days of the Puritans , and partially submerged within other streams and eddies of American thought and culture especially secular constitutionalism - covenant ...
Conteúdo
Covenant and the American Founding | 19 |
The Revolution and the Declaration of Independence | 49 |
Constitutions as Covenants | 77 |
The United States The Covenant Challenged | 101 |
Covenant and Contending Principles in the Expansion of the United States | 103 |
Slavery and Secession Covenant versus Compact | 125 |
Covenant and the Challenges of Human Nature | 147 |
The Sum of Covenantal Expressions | 169 |
Covenant on the Great Frontier | 193 |
The Western Hemisphere False and Real Frontiers | 195 |
Covenant as a TheoPolitical Tradition A Summary Statement | 245 |
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