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The Social Covenant
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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
14
The relationship between the social contract and the social covenant
14.1
Policies are provisional
14.2
The process for revising the social covenant
Human flourishing is the yardstick.
Because of (1), there is some leeway to the modification of the elements of the covenant.
The social contract can be modified at higher frequency, with a lower threshold. Given changes in conditions…
14.3
The process for amending the social contract
13
The Conditions that Support Flourishing
15
A New Social Covenant for the United States of America
On this page
14
The relationship between the social contract and the social covenant
14.1
Policies are provisional
14.2
The process for revising the social covenant
14.3
The process for amending the social contract