By the mid-eighteenth century, the college curriculum gained a new emphasis: reason alone was sufficient for true knowledge. Reason took priority over revelation, even as reason was used to offer arguments for the veracity of God’s law. Still, the intellectual worlds of Puritans and Revolutionaries alike held to the unity of the truth: the universe was orderly, even divinely ruled, with human knowledge promising an ever-expanding vision of the various laws governing the universe. Scholarly treatments of the Revolutionary period and, particularly, the Moral Philosophy course often occlude colleges’ relationship to the study of law. By equating natural law solely with its modern form, some scholars herald the Moral Philosophy course as the beginning of natural-law reflection in the America, thereby cutting off continuities with the colonial colleges. Others, by accepting the twentieth-century consensus on the nature of law, anachronistically split ethics from politics and law. Both accounts are incomplete, if not entirely mistaken. From their colonial roots through the Revolution, American colleges taught law. They did not often teach the details of common-law rules, at least before the establishment of college law professorships yet neither was the study of law separated from the practicalities of the moral life or government. Through their continued adherence to natural law—however changed in its details through the years—American colleges provided the intellectual tools for future leaders to justify, even critique, law and government. Morality and law were commensurable ideas. For most Americans, indeed, both remained equally God’s law.