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The Rights of the People

PREFACE

PART I. CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION

CHAPTER I. CHRISTIANITY AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE

CHAPTER II. WHAT IS DUE TO GOD, AND WHAT TO CÆSAR?

CHAPTER III. THE POWERS THAT BE

PART II. THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE

CHAPTER I. THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE

CHAPTER II. HOW THE UNITED STATES BECAME A NATION

CHAPTER III. WHAT IS THE NATION?

CHAPTER IV. WHO MADE THE NATION?

NOTE

CHAPTER V. RELIGIOUS RIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER VI. RELIGIOUS RIGHT INVADED

THE ARGUMENT FROM EUROPEAN NATIONS

HERE IS THE DECISIVE POINT

FROM COLONIAL CHARTERS

FROM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

FROM THE STATES

CHAPTER VII. THE PEOPLE’S RIGHT OF APPEAL

CHAPTER VIII. NATIONAL PRECEDENT ON RIGHT OF APPEAL

THE DRED SCOTT DECISION

FOR AND AGAINST DECISIONS

THE MEANING OF THE DECLARATION

“DICTA” AND “DECISION.”

IS IT ONLY THEORY?

CHAPTER IX. THE BUGLERS, THE MINERS AND SAPPERS

I. WHAT THE PAPACY IS DOING

II. WHAT PROTESTANTISM IS DOING

CHRISTIAN POLITICS. THE SUPREME COURT DECISION

THE GREATEST OCCASION FOR THANKSGIVING

CHAPTER X. THE SUNDAY-LAW MOVEMENT IN THE FOURTH CENTURY, AND ITS PARALLEL IN THE NINETEENTH

“THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE TO HELPIDIUS

LOOK ON THAT PICTURE, THEN ON THIS

THE NEW FALSE THEOCRATICAL THEORY

CHAPTER XI. WILL THE PEOPLE ASSERT AND MAINTAIN THEIR RIGHTS?

THE PIVOT OF INFALLIBILITY

THE ONE GREAT QUESTION NOW

DIVINE RIGHT

A SUBTLE SUBTERFUGE

THE COURTS INDORSE THE SUBTERFUGE

THE STATE A PARTISAN OF THE CHURCH

THE NATURAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT

FAILURE OF THE SWORN AGENTS OF THE PEOPLE

THE REMEDY

STAND WITH ANYBODY THAT STANDS RIGHT

CHAPTER XII. RELIGIOUS RIGHT IN THE STATES

ARTICLE XIII

ARTICLE XIV

THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE STILL ABIDES

APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Massachusetts Bay

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

New York

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Connecticut

Delaware

Maryland

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

APPENDIX B. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

Article I

Article II

Article III

Article IV

Article V

Article VI

Article VII

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION

APPENDIX C. The Dred Scott Decision

EXTRACT FROM JUSTICE McLEAN’S DISSENTING OPINION

EXTRACT FROM JUSTICE CURTIS’S DISSENTING OPINION

APPENDIX D. The “Christian Nation” Decision

ILLUSTRATIONS

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1895, by
 ALONZO T. JONES,
 In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

[Religious Liberty Library, No. 32]

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