Author: B. Jane EnglandPublisher:
ISBN: 9780155060906
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Test Bank to Accompany Liberty, Equality, Power: Since 1863
Author: B. Jane EnglandPublisher:
ISBN: 9780155060906
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Liberty, Equality, Power: Since 1863
Author: Liberty, Equality, Power
Author: John M. MurrinPublisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780155080973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
This work aims to show how power is gained, lost and used in both public and private life. This volume looks at the history until 1877.
Liberty, Equality, Power
Author: John M. MurrinPublisher: Harcourt College Pub
ISBN: 9780495448709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Purchasing Power of Money
Author: Irving FisherThe Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom
Author: James M. McPhersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199743908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 947
Book Description
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war--slavery--and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
The Law of Nations
Author: Emer de VattelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Imperialism
Author: John Atkinson HobsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Money and the Mechanism of Exchange
Author: William Stanley JevonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exchange
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Keeping Faith with the Constitution
Author: Goodwin LiuPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199752834
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been challenged by proponents of originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed and applied as it was when the Framers wrote it. In Keeping Faith with the Constitution, three legal authorities make the case for Marshall's vision. They describe their approach as "constitutional fidelity"--not to how the Framers would have applied the Constitution, but to the text and principles of the Constitution itself. The original understanding of the text is one source of interpretation, but not the only one; to preserve the meaning and authority of the document, to keep it vital, applications of the Constitution must be shaped by precedent, historical experience, practical consequence, and societal change. The authors range across the history of constitutional interpretation to show how this approach has been the source of our greatest advances, from Brown v. Board of Education to the New Deal, from the Miranda decision to the expansion of women's rights. They delve into the complexities of voting rights, the malapportionment of legislative districts, speech freedoms, civil liberties and the War on Terror, and the evolution of checks and balances. The Constitution's framers could never have imagined DNA, global warming, or even women's equality. Yet these and many more realities shape our lives and outlook. Our Constitution will remain vital into our changing future, the authors write, if judges remain true to this rich tradition of adaptation and fidelity.