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Examines today's critics of law and government in the light of the historical still unfinished struggle to separate the legal regulation of civil life from the Christian regulation of conscience. The text looks at major figures in English common law in the early modern period, French and German absolution and jurisprudence as it is taught in the American law texts of today.