Alan E . Johnson
Alan E. Johnson, an independent philosopher, historian, political scientist, and legal scholar, is the author of the books "Reason and Human Ethics" (2022), "Free Will and Human Life" (2021),"The Electoral College: Failures of Original Intent and Proposed Constitutional and Statutory Changes for Direct Popular Vote," Second Edition (2021), "The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience" (2015), and other publications in the fields of ethical and political philosophy, history, political science, and law. He is currently working on a forthcoming book titled "Reason and Human Government," which will complete his philosophical trilogy on free will, ethics, and political philosophy.
He holds an A.B. (Political Science, 1968) and an A.M. (Humanities, 1971) from the University of Chicago and a J.D. (1979) from Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He retired in 2012 from the practice of law after a long career as an attorney in which he focused mainly, though not exclusively, on constitutional and public law litigation.
Alan Johnson is also the founding moderator of the Political Philosophy and Ethics discussion group (https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/137714-political-philosophy-and-ethics) on Goodreads.com. All who are interested in political philosophy and/or ethics are welcome to join.
He holds an A.B. (Political Science, 1968) and an A.M. (Humanities, 1971) from the University of Chicago and a J.D. (1979) from Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He retired in 2012 from the practice of law after a long career as an attorney in which he focused mainly, though not exclusively, on constitutional and public law litigation.
Alan Johnson is also the founding moderator of the Political Philosophy and Ethics discussion group (https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/137714-political-philosophy-and-ethics) on Goodreads.com. All who are interested in political philosophy and/or ethics are welcome to join.
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Alan E. Johnson
Independent Philosopher, Historian, Political Scientist, and Legal Scholar
This PDF does not support toggling between the text and endnotes, as does the Kindle ebook edition. The book is also available at a reasonable price in paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/Reason-Human-Ethics-Alan-Johnson/dp/097010555X/ref=monarch_sidesheet) and other Amazon sites throughout the world.
The entire book is available in both paperback and Kindle editions at https://www.amazon.com/Reason-Human-Ethics-Alan-Johnson/dp/097010555X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1657319931&sr=8-1. A PDF replica of the entirety of the paperback is also accessible, at no charge, at https://www.academia.edu/107899091/Reason_and_Human_Ethics_Pittsburgh_Philosophia_2022_. One disadvantage of the PDF is that it does not allow toggling back and forth between the endnote references in the text and the endnotes themselves. All endnotes are hyperlinked in the Kindle edition.
Alan E. Johnson, Independent Philosopher, Historian, Political Scientist, and Legal Scholar
Alan E. Johnson (Independent Philosopher and Historian)
The book is available in paperback and Kindle e-book editions at Amazon websites throughout the world. The paperback is also available at some other websites and bookstores.
See also my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOlUZaehYk7WmwW8v9oBMzQ) about Roger Williams, including an interview (https://youtu.be/mGRl5lIbdYY) with me about this book.
For Errata and Supplemental Comments, see the separate document uploaded at https://www.academia.edu/13798228/Errata_and_Supplemental_Comments_to_The_First_American_Founder_Roger_Williams_and_Freedom_of_Conscience.
Alan E. Johnson
This excerpt examines the interaction of historical figures influenced by Roger Williams (especially Stephen Hopkins and Isaac Backus) with such late eighteenth-century US Founders as John Adams, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and Thomas Cushing. This interaction occurred most notably in an October 14, 1774 evening meeting of some of the delegates to the First Continental Congress with Baptist and Quaker representatives at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. At this meeting, Stephen Hopkins (Revolutionary War pamphleteer, former Rhode Island governor, and friend of Benjamin Franklin), Baptist leader Isaac Backus, Quaker leader Israel Pemberton, and others confronted the Massachusetts delegates to the Continental Congress about that colony's continuing religious discrimination against and persecution of Baptists and Quakers. Massachusetts had imprisoned and whipped Baptists and executed Quakers in the name of the "true religion" during the seventeenth century. Although Massachusetts public officials no longer whipped and executed religious dissenters, eighteenth-century Massachusetts laws and governmental practices still discriminated against them.
Other portions of Chapter 9 (not included in this excerpt) address the direct or indirect influence of Roger Williams (ca. 1603-83) on such famous US Founders as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and on other important public figures of that generation such as Richard Cranch, Jeremy Belknap, David Ramsay, and Royall Tyler.
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Alan E. Johnson
Independent Philosopher, Historian, Political Scientist, and Legal Scholar
This PDF does not support toggling between the text and endnotes, as does the Kindle ebook edition. The book is also available at a reasonable price in paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/Reason-Human-Ethics-Alan-Johnson/dp/097010555X/ref=monarch_sidesheet) and other Amazon sites throughout the world.
The entire book is available in both paperback and Kindle editions at https://www.amazon.com/Reason-Human-Ethics-Alan-Johnson/dp/097010555X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1657319931&sr=8-1. A PDF replica of the entirety of the paperback is also accessible, at no charge, at https://www.academia.edu/107899091/Reason_and_Human_Ethics_Pittsburgh_Philosophia_2022_. One disadvantage of the PDF is that it does not allow toggling back and forth between the endnote references in the text and the endnotes themselves. All endnotes are hyperlinked in the Kindle edition.
Alan E. Johnson, Independent Philosopher, Historian, Political Scientist, and Legal Scholar
Alan E. Johnson (Independent Philosopher and Historian)
The book is available in paperback and Kindle e-book editions at Amazon websites throughout the world. The paperback is also available at some other websites and bookstores.
See also my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOlUZaehYk7WmwW8v9oBMzQ) about Roger Williams, including an interview (https://youtu.be/mGRl5lIbdYY) with me about this book.
For Errata and Supplemental Comments, see the separate document uploaded at https://www.academia.edu/13798228/Errata_and_Supplemental_Comments_to_The_First_American_Founder_Roger_Williams_and_Freedom_of_Conscience.
Alan E. Johnson
This excerpt examines the interaction of historical figures influenced by Roger Williams (especially Stephen Hopkins and Isaac Backus) with such late eighteenth-century US Founders as John Adams, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and Thomas Cushing. This interaction occurred most notably in an October 14, 1774 evening meeting of some of the delegates to the First Continental Congress with Baptist and Quaker representatives at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. At this meeting, Stephen Hopkins (Revolutionary War pamphleteer, former Rhode Island governor, and friend of Benjamin Franklin), Baptist leader Isaac Backus, Quaker leader Israel Pemberton, and others confronted the Massachusetts delegates to the Continental Congress about that colony's continuing religious discrimination against and persecution of Baptists and Quakers. Massachusetts had imprisoned and whipped Baptists and executed Quakers in the name of the "true religion" during the seventeenth century. Although Massachusetts public officials no longer whipped and executed religious dissenters, eighteenth-century Massachusetts laws and governmental practices still discriminated against them.
Other portions of Chapter 9 (not included in this excerpt) address the direct or indirect influence of Roger Williams (ca. 1603-83) on such famous US Founders as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and on other important public figures of that generation such as Richard Cranch, Jeremy Belknap, David Ramsay, and Royall Tyler.
August 28, 2024 note regarding the biographical information at the bottom of page 1: Since this paper was posted in 2019, I have written and published the following books: the second edition of “The Electoral College: Failures of Original Intent and Proposed Constitutional and Statutory Changes for Direct Popular Vote” (2021), “Free Will and Human Life” (2021), and “Reason and Human Ethics” (2022). I am currently working on my final book, "Reason and Human Government."
— Alan E. Johnson, February 16, 2022
Note: The review appears to assume that I am a professor or other teacher, which is not accurate. I am an independent philosopher, historian, political scientist, and legal scholar, who has, to date, written and published four books in these areas since retiring from law practice in 2012. “Free Will and Human Life” is the first book of my philosophical trilogy. The second book is “Reason and Human Ethics” (2022), and the third is “Reason and Human Government” (forthcoming).
Alan E. Johnson
See also the section on Kant in Chapter 2 of my book "Free Will and Human Life" (Pittsburgh: Philosophia, 2021), 60-63 (https://www.amazon.com/Free-Will-Human-Life-Johnson/dp/0970105533/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=).
Note: The sentence and citation on page 5, n.1, in this article referring to John M. Barry's book on Roger Williams should be qualified by Barry's remarks elsewhere in his book: "Technically, the Bay was not a theocracy. Consistent with the admonition to render unto Caesar the things that were Caesar’s, and to God those which were God’s, the plantation prohibited a minister or church officer from simultaneously holding a government office. (For this reason some historians have argued that Puritan Massachusetts actually advanced the concept of separation of church and state.) But if not a theocracy, Massachusetts was theocentric." Barry, Roger Williams, 169. As discussed in this article, I disagree with the position that Massachusetts Bay was not a theocracy.
"Reason and Human Ethics" argues that a secular, biological, teleological basis of human ethics exists and that reasoning and critical thinking about both ends and means are essential to human ethics. It examines how these principles apply in the contexts of individual ethics, social ethics, citizen ethics, media ethics, and political ethics.
This is the second of two CLE sessions on U.S. church-state law from the seventeenth century to the present. The first session occurred on July 13, 2016, and, as a result of a one-hour time limitation, concluded before reaching the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The course materials for the first session are posted at https://www.academia.edu/26966462/Church-State_Law_from_Seventeenth-Century_New_England_to_the_Present_An_Overview. The present course materials substantially expand the earlier course materials for the period 1787 to the present.