The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution: A Guide for Christians to Understand America's Constitutional Crisis` - Hardcover

Ellis, Esq Jenna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1512722766 ISBN 13: 9781512722765

Publisher: WestBow Press, 2015

Synopsis

America is in the midst of a cultural and constitutional law crisis that began more than sixty years ago and was further exacerbated by the 2015 Supreme Court same-sex marriage decision. How did we become a culture that lacks objective morality and embraces secular ideas, hinging on the majority whim of nine justices? How do we get back to being a biblically moral, upright society and recognizing the U.S. Constitution as supreme law of the land?

In The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution, Jenna Ellis makes a compelling case for the true roots of America's Founding Documents in objective morality and how our system of government is founded upon the Christian worldview and God's unchanging law, not a secular humanist worldview. She provides a unique perspective of the Founding Fathers as lawyers and how they understood the legitimate authority of biblical truth and appealed directly to God's law for the foundation of America.

Weaving together the legal history and underpinning worldview shifts in American culture, Ellis advocates how Christians must change the basic reasoning of our appeal and effectively engage our culture. Finally, she proposes the solution to reclaim objective, biblical morality in law that the Founders themselves provided for through Article V of the U.S. Constitution.

This book is for every Christian who seeks to understand the times and our constitutional and cultural crisis.

About this title

About the Author

Jenna Ellis is an attorney, professor of law, and international speaker. She specializes in and teaches Constitutional Law. She also specializes in criminal defense practice and is a former deputy district attorney. Jenna is licensed in federal practice and has appeared in litigation on behalf of the U.S. Department of State and the Department of the Navy.

She is a professor at Colorado Christian University in the College of Adult and Graduate Studies and an on-air legal analyst for Moody Bible Institute Radio. Jenna is also a leader and teaching assistant with the Denver Institute for Faith & Work in Colorado.

Jenna has a B.A. in Technical Journalism and is a Fellow of the World Journalism Institute in New York. Prior to practicing law, she regularly published in a variety of local and national forums, including The Associated Press. She has also been published in The Colorado Lawyer.  

Jenna regularly speaks at international and local conferences, universities, and churches on a variety of legal, constitutional, and current events issues, including assisting the Colorado Attorney General drafting a presentation to a panel of foreign judges on American hate crime law. Her most requested presentations include "U.S. Constitutional Law & The Bible" and "Reclaiming the Biblical Definition of Marriage," which are available through her website.

Jenna received her J.D. from the University of Richmond School of Law.

Website: JennaEllis.org
Social Media: facebook.com/jennaellisorg

Review

"Throughout, Ellis provides fascinating insights into what the Founders really meant--and what the Founding Documents should mean for us today."-Nancy Pearcey, author of 'Total Truth' and 'Finding Truth'

"Jenna Ellis has written a masterful book providing a foundation for the basic principle that all law is based in someone's morality. The question becomes, whose morality was intended by the Founders? This is an important question for America today..."-David Gibbs, III, president of National Center for Life & Liberty

"Jenna Ellis has provided an excellent, step-by-step overview of the Constitution's call for biblical morality, how court decisions have, over the past 60 years, eroded that call, and how we can effectively engage our system of government to renew within it the Judeo-Christian worldview our nation was founded upon."-Frank Peretti, Best-selling author of 'This Present Darkness' and 'The Oath'

"At a time in our nation where basic concepts of freedom and liberty are being re-imagined and re-defined, Jenna Ellis provides a timely and helpful exploration of 'why law and what law' against a rapidly changing cultural landscape.-Kerri Kupec, Legal Communications Director, Alliance Defending Freedom

"Well-written, easy to read, full of good information and explanation that the average American just does not know. This book will be a good reference for the Christian perspective of how our government works and where the flash points of conflict arise. I love the way Jenna Ellis keeps going back to worldview foundations."-Dr. William Brown, Senior Fellow for Worldview and Culture, The Colson Center for Christian Worldview

Edition details

• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1512722766
• ISBN 13: 9781512722765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244