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The Social Covenant

Table of contents

  • Foreward
  • 1 Introduction: The Need for a New Social Covenant
  • Social Covenants in Scripture and in History
  • 2 As God Commands: Divine Covenants in the Bible
  • 3 Athens and Jeruselum: Social covenants in the Greco-Roman World
  • 4 Medieval and Early Modern Covenants
  • The Enlightenment Project
  • 5 The Enlightenment Concept of The Social Contract
  • 6 Social covenant, social contract, and the U.S. Constitution
  • 7 The breakdown of the Enlightenment project
  • The Enlightened Self
  • 8 Autonomy, Self-Governance, and Flourishing
  • 9 Critiques of the Enlightenment Concept of the Self
  • 10 Morality Without God?
  • 11 Economics
  • Designing a Social Covenant on Enlightenment Principles
  • 12 Social Contracts, Social Covenants, and Constitutions
  • 13 The Conditions that Support Flourishing
  • 14 The relationship between the social contract and the social covenant
  • Together We Flourish
  • 15 A New Social Covenant for the United States of America
  • 16 Implementation in the Constitution, Constitutional Interpretation
  • 17 Implementation in Law, legal interpretaton
  • 18 Implementation in Education
  • 19 Implementation in Media, Communications, the Internet
  • 20 Conclusions
  • References

17 Implementation in Law, legal interpretaton

16 Implementation in the Constitution, Constitutional Interpretation
18 Implementation in Education

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"The Social Covenant" was written by Peter Lupu and Arthur Small. It was last built on Draft version of 2023-01-19.

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