5. Reexamining the Collapse of the Old Order

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Evangelical Challenge to American Constitutionalism 19
5. 2. Moral Reform and Constitutional Adjudication, 1830–1854 52
6. 3. The Triumph of Evangelical Public Morality in the States 73
7. 4. The Triumph of Evangelical Public Morality in the Supreme Court 91
8. 5. Reexamining the Collapse of the Old Order 133
9. Conclusion. The Evangelical Origins of the Modern Constitutional Order 177
10. Notes 185
11. Acknowledgments 253
12. Index 255