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Overcriminalization and Plea Bargaining Make Criminal Justice Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel
Clark Neily focuses on two factors behind the U.S. mass incarceration phenomenon.
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Calvinism and American Independence
Historian Mark David Hall argues for the importance of the Calvinist tradition in the move toward American independence.
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More Than an Academic Debate
Prof. Steven Green argues that there's more at stake on the faith of the American founders than one might think.
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The Founders Read the Bible. But They Also Read David Hume.
Brooke Allen stresses the importance of religious skepticism and freethinking for the American founders.
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The Religious Beliefs of the Founders Don’t Always Fit in Present-Day Categories
Prof. Steven Green warns against writing the present back into the past.
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Responses to the Panel on Deism, Orthodoxy, and the American Founding
Mark David Hall replies to his interlocutors in this month's discussion.
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No Higher Source than the Consent of the People
Prof. Steven Green argues that the founders were trying to create a government based on consent, not divine institution.
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Deists, Orthodox Believers, and the American Founding
Faith played a strong role in the American founding, says Prof. Thomas Kidd. But it may not be the role we expect.