Covenant and Constitutionalism: The Great Frontier and the Matrix of Federal DemocracyTransaction Publishers, 1998 - 287 Seiten 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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... North America as Whiggism , which culminated in the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 , and the formation of the American colonies across the Atlantic on a Re- formed Protestant base during that same period , did the same for the ...
... North America as Whiggism , which culminated in the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 , and the formation of the American colonies across the Atlantic on a Re- formed Protestant base during that same period , did the same for the ...
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... North America . In matters theological , Calvinism was the stronger influ- ence , but in matters political the influence of Zwingli and Bullinger was the greater . While every nation influenced by Reformed Protestantism developed its ...
... North America . In matters theological , Calvinism was the stronger influ- ence , but in matters political the influence of Zwingli and Bullinger was the greater . While every nation influenced by Reformed Protestantism developed its ...
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... North America as the way to actualize civil soci- ety . The great achievement of the Americans in their revolutionary era was that the moderates from both camps found a common language and a common program upon which to agree , while ...
... North America as the way to actualize civil soci- ety . The great achievement of the Americans in their revolutionary era was that the moderates from both camps found a common language and a common program upon which to agree , while ...
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... North America than the Europeans perceived at the time , not only in new products - potatoes , corn , choco- late , tobacco , and many others — but also in new techniques of con- fronting what for Europeans was a new world . Without ...
... North America than the Europeans perceived at the time , not only in new products - potatoes , corn , choco- late , tobacco , and many others — but also in new techniques of con- fronting what for Europeans was a new world . Without ...
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... North America was another example . North of it was the Illinois Confederacy between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi . Other leagues and confederacies linked tribes in various other parts of the country . With the exception of the ...
... North America was another example . North of it was the Illinois Confederacy between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi . Other leagues and confederacies linked tribes in various other parts of the country . With the exception of the ...
Inhalt
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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abraham Lincoln Afrikaners agreement Ameri American political American Revolution Articles of Confederation basic basis became biblical British Canada Canadian Center Christian church civil society Clinton collectivist colonies combination commonwealth Confederation Congress constitutionalism corporatism covenant idea covenant theology covenant tradition covenantal tradition Daniel democratic developed dimension documents Donald Lutz Elazar enant England equal established European federal constitution federal liberty federal system federal theology Federalist founders frontier hierarchical human Ibid ideology individual influence institutions intellectual Israel Jewish John Lincoln Mark Twain Marranos Massachusetts Melville ment modern epoch moral nature nineteenth century organic original pact Perry Miller political compact political culture principles Protestantism Puritan Quebec Reformed Protestantism religion religious republic republican Revolutionary secular sense settlement settlers slavery social South Africa synthesis territory theory tion transformation U.S. Constitution U.S. Supreme Court Union United University Press Whiggism York Zionist
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