Author: William Bentley SwaneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330531389
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Excerpt from Safeguards of Liberty or Liberty Protected by Laws Mr. Swaney has made a most interesting and valuable contribution to the literature and discussions of the day in the chapters of this book. A colossal war like that from which the world has just emerged, destroying autocratic governments, shaking others to their foundations, and testing anew the strength of those principles which have conferred upon the human race the great boons of liberty and democracy, is too frequently followed by a period of general collapse and reaction with an accompaniment of moral and intellectual astigmatism which prevents men from seeing and thinking clearly at the very time when straight thinking and clear vision are the essential safeguards of civilization. To have presented to us in compact form and pleasing literary style the origin, growth, and progress of that civil and religious freedom which is the very lifeblood of modern democracy, is a genuine service to humanity. It is of the utmost importance that the people of the world should understand more than ever before the true meaning of democracy and of the principles which should guide and control democratic governments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.