Tuesday, January 20, 2015

In Search of Community

95 percent of Americans in the late-eighteenth century were farm or village people; their townships were commonly homogeneous by ethnicity and faith; and their families were patriarchal. Government, such as it was, served as an instrument of Christian social order, not personal liberation. Pennsylvania’s Declaration of Rights, for example, urged “laws for the encouragement of virtue, and prevention of vice and immorality,”

http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/in-search-of-community/

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