Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Prologue
Author: Rights of Man
Author: Thomas PaineAnnual Report
Author: United States. National Archives and Records AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Was Frankenstein Really Uncle Sam? Vol. IV
Author: Richard J. RolwingPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462809863
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This is one of four volumes on the Declaration of Independence. Formatted in 365 essays of about 400 words each, Rolwing examines nearly all the major writers on our Basic Charter, most of whom repudiate it. He focuses on their manifold criticisms and rejections, reveals their multiple distortions and misunderstandings, rebukes their self-contradictions and inconsistencies, and pities their general theo-phobia. He argues that while America was Founded almost completely by Protestant Christians (the only two "deists" were not even "deists"), what was Founded was formally only a philosophical product, not a faith based or Christian one, although the philosophy had been more Catholic than Protestant. Rolwing makes a great deal of American history, law, ethics, politics, philosophy, and theology easily accessible to the average reader. Each 5 minute essay can give you a high for the whole day. "Certainly the Declaration is worth many an hour explaining and defending it. Mr. Rolwing seeks to make the problems brought up about the document capable of being understood by both scholar and ordinary citizen." Fr. James Schall, S.J.
Inventing Freedom
Author: Daniel HannanPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062231758
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Why does the world speak English? Why does every country at least pretend to aspire to representative government, personal freedom, and an independent judiciary? In The New Road to Serfdom, British politician Daniel Hannan exhorted Americans not to abandon the principles that have made our country great. Inventing Freedom is a much more ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of those principles, and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled. According to Hannan, the ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms—individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government—are not broadly "Western" in the usual sense of the term. Rather they are the legacy of a very specific tradition, one that was born in England and that we Americans, along with other former British colonies, inherited. The first English kingdoms, as they emerged from the Dark Ages, already had unique characteristics that would develop into what we now call constitutional government. By the tenth century, a thousand years before most modern countries, England was a nation-state whose people were already starting to define themselves with reference to inherited common-law rights. The story of liberty is the story of how that model triumphed. How, repressed after the Norman Conquest, it reasserted itself; how it developed during the civil wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries into the modern liberal-democratic tradition; how it was enshrined in a series of landmark victories—the Magna Carta, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the U.S. Constitution—and how it came to defeat every international rival. Yet there was nothing inevitable about it. Anglosphere values could easily have been snuffed out in the 1940s. And they would not be ascendant today if the Cold War had ended differently. Today we see those ideas abandoned and scorned in the places where they once went unchallenged. The current U.S. president, in particular, seems determined to deride and traduce the Anglosphere values that the Founders took for granted. Inventing Freedom explains why the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, not the ruler, of the individual evolved uniquely in the English-speaking world. It is a chronicle of the success of Anglosphere exceptionalism. And it is offered at a time that may turn out to be the end of the age of political freedom.
The Best of History Web Sites
Author: Thomas DaccordPublisher:
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Educator and technology trainer Thomas Daccord has painstakingly selected and compiled this guide to the best history sites for use in high school, academic, and public libraries. "The Best of History Web Sites" is the quickest path to a rich variety of content, including multimedia presentations, subject gateways, lesson plans and activities, primary resources, interactive quizzes and games, virtual tours, maps and atlases, statistical collections, and more.
A Look at the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments
Author: John Richard ConwayPublisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9781598450705
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Looks at the reasons for the adoption of the 13th and 14th Amendments, describes the laws it sets forth, and discusses challenges to and violations of the amendments.
The United States Government Manual
Author: United States. Office of the Federal RegisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The United States Government Manual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
United States Government Organization Manual
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description