National Sunday Law

Table Of Contents:

Introduction
Beginning Of Mr. Jones’s Argument Before The Senate Committee
The Words Of Christ
Civil Government A Social Compact
What To God? — What To Caesar?
The Sabbath Not Due To Caesar
Civil Sabbath Laws Antichristian
The Civil Power Enforces Civility
Sunday-Law Inconsistency
Laws Against Blasphemy
Christianity And Roman Law
The United States Constitution
Sunday Laws Religious Legislation
Sunday Laws Unconstitutional
Sunday-Law Petitions
Sunday Laws Not Good
Religion Necessary To A Rest Day
A Rest Day Belongs Only To God
THe History Of It
A New Theocracy
The Government Of Israel
The New Theocracy
The Fourth-Century Theocracy
Fourth-Century Sunday Laws
The Union Of Church And State
The Foundation Of The Inquisition
No Scripture Authority For Sunday
Sabbath Laws Belong Only With A Theocracy
More! More! More! More!
Enforced Church-going On Sunday
The Object Of Sunday Laws
Shall The Church Compel The Civil Power?
The Cardinal Knows What He Is Doing
The Argument Is Logical
Sunday Laws Mean Church And State
Only God Can Enforce The Decalogue
No Earthly Theocracy — No Sunday Laws
A National Religion Proposed
Worse Than Russia
The State Not A Religious Partisan
Shall This Majority Rule?
Sunday Laws And The Working-Men
Wages For Doing Nothing
Church Members Compel Work On Sunday
The Preachers Desecrate The Day
Will They Compel Themselves?
An Exemption Clause
Exemption Is Toleration In Disguise
The Workings Of A Sunday Law
Subversion Of Liberty
The Workings Of A Sunday Law
Legislative Power Not Omnipotent
An Unconstitutional Decision
The Pharisees Justified Themselves
Sunday Laws Invade Inalienable Rights
Earthly Governments Civil, Not Moral
Is The Objection Imaginary?
No Ticket Of Leave For Us
W. C. T. U. Legislation
Exemption For The Territories
The New Doctrine Of Protection
Two Sundays Instead Of One
The Answer To Unanswerable Arguments
The Authority For Sunday Laws
No Authority For Sunday Laws
Appendix A
Appendix B

Additional Info
A National Sunday Law is a question of national importance. The subjects of this book should never become secondary in the mind of any American citizen: the principles of the American Constitution, the proper relationship between religion and the State, the distinction between moral and civil law, the inalienable civil and religious rights of men. This book is a report of an argument made concerning the national Sunday bill that was introduced by Senator Blair in the 50th Congress.
AN ARGUMENT OF ALONZO T. JONES BEFORE THE LIMITED STATE SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, DECEMBER 13, 1889