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CASANOVA, Carlos A. LIBERTAD RELIGIOSA Y DERECHO NATURAL EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. Rev. chil. derecho [online]. 2006, vol.33, n.1, pp.125-147. ISSN 0718-3437.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-34372006000100008.

One of the essential characteristics of classical natural law is to acknowledge that neither man nor society is the measure of what is just. The true measure can be found in a non-human Intelligence, known in the early republican life of the United States as necessary in order to avoid an undue cult of society. Currently, however, both democratic myths and doctrines of individual rights, in the hands of sectarian secularism, are gradually causing the sacrifice of true civic freedom on the altar of the earthly Leviathan. The most viable answer to this challenge lies in recovering the classical approach to natural law, in accordance with the best tradition of the United States

Palabras clave : Classical natural law; religion; ideology; individual rights; freedom of religion, right of association; separation of Church and State; utilitarianism; Kantism.

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