Separation of powers. Checks and balances. These aren’t just legal concepts, for America’s founders they were a response to a biblical truth: that human beings are fallen and sinful, and that government must be designed with that in mind. Dr. Daniel Dreisbach traces how the most widely read book in the founding era shaped the very structure of American constitutional government.
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Dr. Dreisbach is a professor at the American University School of Public Affairs and an attorney who specializes in the constitutional issue of church-state separation. He is the author of Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers.
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