We hold these truths; [electronic resource] Catholic reflections on the American proposition.

Introduction: The civilization of the pluralist society -- pt. 1. The American proposition: E pluribus unum: the American consensus -- Civil unity and religious integrity: the articles of peace -- Two cases for the public consensus: fact or need -- The origins and authority of the public consensus: a study of the growing end -- Creed at war intelligibly: pluralism and the university -- pt. 2. Four unfinished arguments: Is it justice?: the school question today -- Should there be a law?: the question of censorship -- Is it basket weaving?: the question of Christianity and human values -- Are there two or one?: the question of the future of freedom -- pt. 3. The uses of doctrine: Doctrine and policy in communist imperialism: the problem of security and risk -- The uses of a doctrine on the uses of force: war as a moral problem -- The doctrine is dead: the problem of the moral vacuum -- The doctrine lives: the eternal return of natural law.