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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Charles Eric Mount Jr.
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 483 - 497
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2001

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3. Berger, Peter L. and Neuhaus, Richard John offered a similar argument two decades ago in To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy (Am. Enterprise Inst, for Pub. Policy Research 1977)Google Scholar. Stackhouse relates his discussion instead to Fukuyama's, FrancisTrust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (The Free Press 1995)Google Scholar.

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