Levin argues that God created the world and devised and encoded natural law to regulate his creation. Through revelation and reason the Founding Fathers deduced that moral order, unalienable rights and the civil society are made possible and extend out from the divine gifts.
For the sake of liberty and religious liberty we maintain separation of church and state while basing our Constitution on natural law and unalienable rights, conferred upon the world and us by God.
Levin makes the seminal point in Liberty and Tyranny that separation of church and state seem not to have hurt us: we are among the most religious and the most tolerant people on earth (page 43).
Mavellonialism takes the great American political experiment and does not upend it or alter it so much as build on what is already in place, a logical and humane extension of our political and religious traditions.
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