Author: Angélica Maria Bernal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190494220
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Beyond Origins challenges the common view of foundings as singular, extraordinary moments of political origin and creation. Engaging with cases of founding across political traditions -- from classical Greece to contemporary Latin America -- the book argues that it is only through pragmatist understandings of democratic origins that we can realize the potential for radical democratic change.
Beyond Origins
Author: Angélica Maria Bernal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190494220
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Beyond Origins challenges the common view of foundings as singular, extraordinary moments of political origin and creation. Engaging with cases of founding across political traditions -- from classical Greece to contemporary Latin America -- the book argues that it is only through pragmatist understandings of democratic origins that we can realize the potential for radical democratic change.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190494220
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Beyond Origins challenges the common view of foundings as singular, extraordinary moments of political origin and creation. Engaging with cases of founding across political traditions -- from classical Greece to contemporary Latin America -- the book argues that it is only through pragmatist understandings of democratic origins that we can realize the potential for radical democratic change.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 14
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069118481X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Volume 14, from October 1788 through April 1789, continues and almost completes Jefferson's stay in France as American minister.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069118481X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Volume 14, from October 1788 through April 1789, continues and almost completes Jefferson's stay in France as American minister.
The Second Amendment
Author: Michael Waldman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476747458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Presents a history of the Second Amendment to illuminate its controversies, debates, and misapprehensions, explaining its contexts and purposes while revealing how it came to represent gun-ownership rights in the twentieth century.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476747458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Presents a history of the Second Amendment to illuminate its controversies, debates, and misapprehensions, explaining its contexts and purposes while revealing how it came to represent gun-ownership rights in the twentieth century.
The Founding Father's Papers
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Historical Documentary Editions
The French Revolution 1787-1804
Author: P. M. Jones
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317863186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The French Revolution can be seen as an enormous explosion of civic energy with huge ramifications for the rest of the world. In this balanced and accessible account, P.M Jones: Considers the build-up of pressure between 1787 and 1789 as the power of the ancien régime began to crumbleAnalyses the dramatic events that began with the taking of the Bastille in 1789 and led to the establishment of a radical new orderExamines the demise of the Republic in 1804 and assesses the wider significance of the revolutionary decade At the core of the Revolution lay the realisation among ordinary men and wom.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317863186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The French Revolution can be seen as an enormous explosion of civic energy with huge ramifications for the rest of the world. In this balanced and accessible account, P.M Jones: Considers the build-up of pressure between 1787 and 1789 as the power of the ancien régime began to crumbleAnalyses the dramatic events that began with the taking of the Bastille in 1789 and led to the establishment of a radical new orderExamines the demise of the Republic in 1804 and assesses the wider significance of the revolutionary decade At the core of the Revolution lay the realisation among ordinary men and wom.
The Partisan Republic
Author: Gerald Leonard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107024161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Provides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107024161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Provides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era.
The Emerging Nation: Toward federal diplomacy, 1780-1789
Author: Mary A. Giunta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Slavery and Race
Author: Julia Jorati
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197659233
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of whom viewed themselves as enlightened--endorsed, funded, legislated, and executed the slave trade. This atrocity had a profound impact on philosophy, but historians of the discipline have so far neglected to address the topics of slavery and race. Many authors--including enslaved and formerly enslaved Black authors--used philosophical ideas to advocate for abolition, analyze racist attitudes, and critique racial bias. Other authors attempted to justify the transatlantic slave trade by advancing philosophical defenses of racial chattel slavery. Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century explores these philosophical ideas and arguments, with a focus on the role race played in discussions of slavery. In doing so, author Julia Jorati reveals how closely associated Blackness and slavery were at that time and how many White people viewed Black people as naturally destined for slavery. In addition to examining well-known authors like David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jorati also discusses less widely studied philosophers like Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Lemuel Haynes, and Olympe de Gouges. By revealing important aspects of debates about slavery in North America and Europe, this book and its companion volume on the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries are valuable resources for readers interested in a more complete history of early modern philosophy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197659233
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of whom viewed themselves as enlightened--endorsed, funded, legislated, and executed the slave trade. This atrocity had a profound impact on philosophy, but historians of the discipline have so far neglected to address the topics of slavery and race. Many authors--including enslaved and formerly enslaved Black authors--used philosophical ideas to advocate for abolition, analyze racist attitudes, and critique racial bias. Other authors attempted to justify the transatlantic slave trade by advancing philosophical defenses of racial chattel slavery. Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century explores these philosophical ideas and arguments, with a focus on the role race played in discussions of slavery. In doing so, author Julia Jorati reveals how closely associated Blackness and slavery were at that time and how many White people viewed Black people as naturally destined for slavery. In addition to examining well-known authors like David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jorati also discusses less widely studied philosophers like Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Lemuel Haynes, and Olympe de Gouges. By revealing important aspects of debates about slavery in North America and Europe, this book and its companion volume on the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries are valuable resources for readers interested in a more complete history of early modern philosophy.
Democracy and Equality
Author: Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190938226
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer unconstitutional; and it ruled that people accused of a crime must be given a lawyer even if they can't afford one. Yet, despite those and other achievements, conservative critics have fiercely accused the justices of the Warren Court of abusing their authority by supposedly imposing their own opinions on the nation. As the eminent legal scholars Geoffrey R. Stone and David A. Strauss demonstrate in Democracy and Equality, the Warren Court's approach to the Constitution was consistent with the most basic values of our Constitution and with the most fundamental responsibilities of our judiciary. Stone and Strauss describe the Warren Court's extraordinary achievements by reviewing its jurisprudence across a range of issues addressing our nation's commitment to the values of democracy and equality. In each chapter, they tell the story of a critical decision, exploring the historical and legal context of each case, the Court's reasoning, and how the justices of the Warren Court fulfilled the Court's most important responsibilities. This powerfully argued evaluation of the Warren Court's legacy, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Warren Court, both celebrates and defends the Warren Court's achievements against almost sixty-five years of unrelenting and unwarranted attacks by conservatives. It demonstrates not only why the Warren Court's approach to constitutional interpretation was correct and admirable, but also why the approach of the Warren Court was far superior to that of the increasingly conservative justices who have dominated the Supreme Court over the past half-century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190938226
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer unconstitutional; and it ruled that people accused of a crime must be given a lawyer even if they can't afford one. Yet, despite those and other achievements, conservative critics have fiercely accused the justices of the Warren Court of abusing their authority by supposedly imposing their own opinions on the nation. As the eminent legal scholars Geoffrey R. Stone and David A. Strauss demonstrate in Democracy and Equality, the Warren Court's approach to the Constitution was consistent with the most basic values of our Constitution and with the most fundamental responsibilities of our judiciary. Stone and Strauss describe the Warren Court's extraordinary achievements by reviewing its jurisprudence across a range of issues addressing our nation's commitment to the values of democracy and equality. In each chapter, they tell the story of a critical decision, exploring the historical and legal context of each case, the Court's reasoning, and how the justices of the Warren Court fulfilled the Court's most important responsibilities. This powerfully argued evaluation of the Warren Court's legacy, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Warren Court, both celebrates and defends the Warren Court's achievements against almost sixty-five years of unrelenting and unwarranted attacks by conservatives. It demonstrates not only why the Warren Court's approach to constitutional interpretation was correct and admirable, but also why the approach of the Warren Court was far superior to that of the increasingly conservative justices who have dominated the Supreme Court over the past half-century.