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'''Christopher A. Ferrara''' is an [[author]], [[attorney]], and president of the American Catholic Lawyers Association.<ref>[http://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/07/pro-life-girls-shackled-strip-searched-now-settle-lawsuit/ Pro-Life Girls Shackled, Strip Searched Now Settle Lawsuit]</ref>

'''Christopher A. Ferrara''' is an [[author]], [[attorney]], and president of the American Catholic Lawyers Association.<ref>[https://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/07/pro-life-girls-shackled-strip-searched-now-settle-lawsuit/ Pro-Life Girls Shackled, Strip Searched Now Settle Lawsuit]</ref>

==Liberty, the God That Failed==

==Liberty, the God That Failed==

According to Ferrara, "the claim that the Framers created a 'limited government' of 'checks and balances' borders on the ridiculous".<ref>Liberty, the God That Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to Obama, p. 180</ref>

According to Ferrara, "the claim that the Framers created a 'limited government' of 'checks and balances' borders on the ridiculous".<ref>Liberty, the God That Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to Obama, p. 180</ref>

Conversely, a reviewer notes that Ferrara overlooks the fact that the mores in place at the time of the founding were consistently encouraged by the Founders.  Many of these mores came from once-Catholic [[Europe]], from countries where the bedrock Catholicism has been abandoned, something Ferrara admits.<ref>[http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/books/item/15452-review-of-christopher-ferrara-s-liberty-the-god-that-failed Review of Christopher Ferrara’s "Liberty: The God That Failed" ]</ref>

Conversely, a reviewer notes that Ferrara overlooks the fact that the mores in place at the time of the founding were consistently encouraged by the Founders.  Many of these mores came from once-Catholic [[Europe]], from countries where the bedrock Catholicism has been abandoned, something Ferrara admits.<ref>[https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/books/item/15452-review-of-christopher-ferrara-s-liberty-the-god-that-failed Review of Christopher Ferrara’s "Liberty: The God That Failed" ]</ref>

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