ehind their democratic beliefs, even if they did not believe in all of the republican ideology.
Pornography was described by conservatives as responsible for the "moral decay" of society (McGirr, 226). Future national Christian Right leaders "sought to put regulatory control [of pornographic material] in the hands of local communities" (227), thus giving control to the local communities that would enable them to make decisions that could potentially be unconstitutional. This is confirmed by historian Margaret Blanchard in Suburban Warriors when she describes how the Court favored the locals in the case of Miller v. California: "'another aspect of the conservative revolution bei
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