Author: James Aitken WyliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Rome and Civil Liberty
Author: James Aitken WyliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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On Civil Liberty and Self-government
Author: Francis LieberPublisher:
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Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Roman Republic
Author: Valentina ArenaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107028175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Radical reappraisal of the political struggles of the late Roman Republic through a study of the conflicting uses of libertas.
Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty
Author: Richard PricePublisher:
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Rome and Civil Liberty: Or, The Papal Aggression in Its Relation to the Sovereignty of the Queen and the Independence of the Nation by Rev. J. A. Wylie
Author: James Aitken WylieAn essay upon the true principles of civil liberty, etc. The Roman Catholic claim to the elective franchise discussed, in an essay upon the true principles of civil liberty and of free government
Author: Charles Francis SheridanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Mortal Republic
Author: Edward J. WattsPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465093825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.
Freedom and the Construction of Europe
Author: Quentin SkinnerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a continent of proliferating religious denominations. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.
Freedom
Author: Annelien De DijnPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674988337
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year “Ambitious and impressive...At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of liberty, yet hold radically different understandings of its meaning...This deeply informed history of an idea has the potential to combat political polarization.” —Publishers Weekly “Ambitious and bold, this book will have an enormous impact on how we think about the place of freedom in the Western tradition.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough “Brings remarkable clarity to a big and messy subject...New insights and hard-hitting conclusions about the resistance to democracy make this essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of our current dilemmas.” —Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why It Matters For centuries people in the West identified freedom with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. The equation of liberty with restraints on state power—what most people today associate with freedom—was a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking. So what triggered this fateful reversal? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of Western thinking about freedom, Annelien de Dijn argues that this was not the natural outcome of such secular trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the French and American Revolutions. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries who created our modern democracies—it was first conceived by their critics and opponents. De Dijn shows that far from following in the path of early American patriots, today’s critics of “big government” owe more to the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.
Four Lectures on Civil Liberty, and Expansion of Intellect ...
Author: J. H. HarveyPublisher:
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Category : Liberty
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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