in the slave states, arises from a new view of nature, a historical view. Progressivism, which has in modern times remade the federal government both in purpose and in scope, also arises from a historical view. In its early account, "the laws of nature and of nature's God" are themselves constructs of a particular time and set of circumstances and not the abiding things they purport to be. In a later Progressive account, these eternal laws are indeed eternal, but because they are eternal the arrangements of the Constitution cannot be. In the nature of things, circumstances change radically. As
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