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- Bruce Ackerman, “Revolution on a Human Scale,” Yale Law Journal 108.8 (1999).
- Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling, eds., Events That Changed America Through the Seventeenth Century
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000).
- Herbert Schlossberg, “How Great Awakenings Happen,” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, Oct. 2000.
- Patricia U. Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America
(New York: Oxford, 1988).
- Charles M. Andrews, The Colonial Background of the American Revolution: Four Essays in American Colonial History, Revised Edition
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961).
- Christine A. Desan, “The Constitutional Commitment to Legislative Adjudication in the Early American Tradition,” Harvard Law Review 111.6 (1998).
- Claude Newlin, Philosophy and Religion in Colonial America
(New York: Philosophical Library Inc., 1962).
- Eugene E. White, Puritan Rhetoric: The Issue of Emotion in Religion
(Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972).
- Franklin Hamlin Littell, From State Church to Pluralism: A Protestant Interpretation of Religion in American History
(Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1962).
- Ralph Ketcham, From colony to country: The Revolution in American thought, 1750-1820
(New York: Macmillan Company, 1974).
- Thomas Cuming Hall, The religious background of American culture (American classics)
(Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1930).
- Robert M. Crunden, Brief History of American Culture
(London: North Castle Books, 1994).
- Nancy Ruttenburg, “George Whitefield, Spectacular Conversion, and the Rise of Democratic Personality,” American Literary History 5.3 (1993).
- David S. Lovejoy, Religious Enthusiasm in the New World: Heresy to Revolution
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985).
- C. C. Goen, Revivalism and Separatism in New England, 1740-1800: Strict Congregationalists and Separate Baptists in the Great Awakening
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1962).
- James H. Hutson and Jaroslav Pelikan, Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
(Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1998).
- Elizabeth B. Clark, “Church-State Relations in the Constitution-Making Period,” Church and State in America: A Bibliographical Guide, ed. John F. Wilson (New York: Greenwood Press, 1986).
- Stephen M. Feldman, American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism: An Intellectual Voyage
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
- Harry S. Stout and D. G. Hart, eds., New Directions in American Religious History
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
- Stephen G. Kurtz and James H. Hutson, eds., Essays on the American Revolution
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1973).
- Declaration of Independence.
- Derek H. Davis, Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original Intent
(Oxford: Oxford US, 2000).
- Edward Dumbauld, The Declaration of Independence and What It Means Today
(Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950).
- Kevin Phillips, The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-America
(New York: Basic Books, 1999).
- Kerry N. Jacoby, Souls, Bodies, Spirits
: The Drive to Abolish Abortion since 1973 (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998).
- Peter J. Albert and Ronald Hoffman, eds., Religion in a Revolutionary Age
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994).
- Francis D. Cogliano, No King, No Popery: Anti-Catholicism in Revolutionary New England
, ed. Wakelyn, Jon L. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995).