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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (ISBN 0-670-03486-X) is a 2006 political commentary book by American political writer Kevin Phillips. The book is a critique of the past forty years of the Republican coalition in United States politics.
However, later critics labeled the town a "theocracy," mostly because of the position of many church leaders, including Smith, as elected city officials. That was a serious charge, as in Jacksonian America, anyone accused of theocratic rule was immediately suspect and deemed an antirepublican threat to the country. Suspicions about Mormon rule ...
However, according to Josephus, the government of the Jews was unique. Josephus offered the term theocracy to describe this polity in which a god was sovereign and the god's word was law. [4] Josephus' definition was widely accepted until the Enlightenment era, when the term took on negative connotations and was barely salvaged by Hegel's ...
Christian reconstructionism is a fundamentalist Calvinist theonomic movement. [1] It developed primarily under the direction of R. J. Rushdoony, Greg Bahnsen and Gary North [2] and has had an important influence on the Christian right in the United States.
"If This Goes On—" is a short novel detailing a rebellion against an American theocracy. Heinlein revised and expanded the magazine version for this publication. [ 1 ] " Coventry" and "Misfit" are short stories showing the succeeding secular liberal society with "Coventry" presenting the point of view of characters who reject it.
It’s called “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.” When she spoke up at a Livingston Parrish school board meeting, her photo was uploaded to conservative websites.
[T]he neoconservatives believe that America is special because it was founded on an idea—a commitment to the rights of man embodied in the Declaration of Independence—not in ethnic or religious affiliations. The theocons, too, argue that America is rooted in an idea, but they believe that idea is Christianity. [citation needed]
Democracy in America, Book 2, Ch I, 1st and 2nd paragraph Such an ambiguous understanding of democracy in a study of great impact on political thought could not help leaving traces. We suppose that it was Tocqueville’s work and not least its title that strongly associated the notion of democracy with the American system and, ultimately, with ...