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85 Miss. L.J. 643 (2016-2017)
Jewish Law Antecedents to American Constitutional Thought

handle is hein.journals/mislj85 and id is 667 raw text is: PEER REVIEW ARTICLEt JEWISH LAW ANTECEDENTS TO AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL THOUGHT Shlomo Pill* INTRODUCTION ...........................................643 1. INHERENT DIGNITY AND EQUALITY ....................652 A. Government by Consent .........................655 B. Equal Treatment Under Law .......... ........665 C. Fundamental Rights........... ................669 II. THE CONSTITUTION AS A FRAME OF GOVERNMENT...........673 A. Federalism ........................................675 B. The Separation of Powers ....................686 CONCLUSION ...........................................695 INTRODUCTION Some of the Founders, while generally amenable to Jews as individuals,' maintained decidedly negative opinions about t For more information on the Mississippi Law Journal's peer review process, see Jack Wade Nowlin & Brian Clark Stuart, Foreword: The Mississippi Law Journal Peer Review Process, 84 MISS. L.J. i (2015). * S.J.D. Law and Religion (Comparative Jewish, Islamic, and American Law and Jurisprudence), 2016, Emory University School of Law, and the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University; LL.M., 2013, Emory University School of Law; J.D., 2012, Fordham University School of Law; B.A., Political Science and History, 2009, Lander College for Men. Special thanks to Professor John D. Feerick, as well as the members of the Mississippi Law Journal Peer Review Board, who have offered valuable comments and suggestions; errors, and deficiencies are, of course, my own. I See, e.g., George Washington's Letter to the Touro Synagogue (1790), in MAXIMS OF WASHINGTON; POLITICAL, MORAL, SOCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS 373-74 (John Frederick Schroeder ed., 1854) (May the same Wonder-working Deity, who long since delivered 643

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