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The End of Empathy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

The End of Empathy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

How did white evangelicals, a group that had once rallied national support for the federal minimum wage and progressive child labor laws, vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in 2016? In The End of Empathy, John W. Compton presents a nuanced portrait of the changing values of evangelical voters over the last century. To explain the rise of white Protestant social concern in the latter part of the nineteenth century and its sudden demise at the end of the twentieth, Compton argues that religious conviction, by itself, is rarely sufficient to motivate empathetic political behavior. When believers do act empathetically--championing reforms that transfer resources or political influence to less privileged groups within society, for example--it is typically because strong religious institutions have compelled them to do so.

The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution

The New Deal is often said to represent a sea change in American constitutional history, overturning a century of precedent to permit an expanded federal government, increased regulation of the economy, and eroded property protections. John Compton offers a surprising revision of this familiar narrative, showing that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestants, not New Deal reformers, paved the way for the most important constitutional developments of the twentieth century. Following the great religious revivals of the early 1800s, American evangelicals embarked on a crusade to eradicate immorality from national life by destroying the property that made it possible. Their cause represented a ...

The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 519

The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution

  • Categories: Law

Offers an accessible, interdisciplinary, and historically informed introduction to the study of American constitutionalism.

The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution

John Compton shows how evangelicals, not New Deal reformers, paved the way for the most important constitutional developments of the twentieth century. Their early-1800s crusade to destroy property that made immorality possible challenged founding-era legal protections of slavery, lotteries, and liquor sales and opened the door to progressivism.

Official Register
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 946

Official Register

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1870
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Official Register of the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1494

Official Register of the United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1897
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Reports Communicated to Both Branches of the Legislature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

Reports Communicated to Both Branches of the Legislature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1871
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Boyle's court and country guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 994

Boyle's court and country guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1869-04
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Popular Sources of Political Authority
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 984

The Popular Sources of Political Authority

"Appendix. The Massachusetts towns of 1780": pages [931]-942.

Kentucky Public Documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 614

Kentucky Public Documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1871
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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