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We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident: Four Masterpieces That Define Our Nation
These four inestimable works of rhetoric are meant to strengthen our understanding of what it means to be an American, and why the American political soul is so drawn to Divine Inspiration Within these four great pronouncements of American conviction is the belief that while all people are equal, we are equal under God. As is said in the conclusion of the Declaration of Independence, while the signers mutually pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, they did so with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence..
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Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law
This book presents an engaging collection of essays exploring "catholic" and "Catholic" perspectives on American law - catholic in their claims of universal truths, and Catholic in their grounding in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. What emerges is a model of human freedom and flourishing that has its foundation in the transcendent vocation of each and every human person. The 2000-year-old Catholic Church played a pivotal role in the formation of the western legal culture. Does it have anything of relevance left to offer that culture in the 21st century? The contributors to Recovering Self-Evident Truths answer with a resounding yes. The opening essays present the guiding premises of the volume as a whole: human persons must be respected by governments and law because their objective dignity arises from being made in the image and likeness of God. Reasoning from these premises, the next set of essays situates the person within community, exploring the implications for the American legal system of taking seriously Catholic understanding of subsidiarity, solidarity, the common good, and the relationship between freedom and truth. The next set of essays concludes the foundational material by engaging dominant secular political and legal theory from a Catholic perspective. With the foundation set, the essays in the second half of the book explore eight specific substantive areas of the law - Contract Law, Property Law, Tort Law, Criminal Law, Labor Law, Family Law, Immigration Law, and International Law - through a Catholic lens. "Recovering Self-Evident Truths" is particularly timely: a majority of the justices on the United States Supreme Court are Catholic; Catholics represent a pivotal voting demographic in the American political landscape; and the issue of religion and religious values in the public square is hotly debated as some warn against a creeping theocracy. This book demonstrates that religiously founded values can serve to provide constructive proposals for building a more just society..
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To Be Self-Evident
In this remarkable debut, R. L. Hogan provides an expansive, yet readable and down-to-earth explanation of the progress of the human species Humans evolved very slowly until the development of agriculture about 10,000 years ago. Agriculture created the conditions necessary for the development of civilizations. We have been taught history as a chronicle of the many varied civilizations over the previous 5,500 years of recorded events. The physical and biological components of humans have not appreciably changed over that expanse of time. However, something extraordinary occurred during the past couple of centuries that has led to an explosion of technological change and prosperity. To Be Self-Evident explores the reasons and results of this human revolution. The book provides keen insight and a common sense approach which results in a refreshing and optimistic understanding of our history. The evidence points to the unmistakable conclusion that we have entered a new epoch of human existance. We are not living through merely a typical life cycle of just another civilization. Humans have discovered a new and better method of human interaction -- cooperation through Libertas. This new form of human interaction is as fundamental of a change from the past as agriculture was from hunting-gathering. The historical verification of this change does not require the resources of elite scientists and academics. The compelling story is explained throughout this book. The conclusion is self-evident..
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The Existence of God is Self Evident
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Ignoring the Self-Evident.(Roe v. Wade): An article from: National Right to Life News
This digital document is an article from National Right to Life News, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2006. The length of the article is 528 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Ignoring the Self-Evident.(Roe v. Wade) Author: Gale Reference Team Publication:National Right to Life News (Magazine/Journal) Date: October 1, 2006 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 33 Issue: 10 Page: 16 Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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