Author: Metropolitan Society for the Protection of Private and Constitutional Rights (N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liquor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Unconstitutionality of the Prohibitory Liquor Law Confirmed
Author: Metropolitan Society for the Protection of Private and Constitutional Rights (N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liquor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Unconstitutionality of the Prohibitory Liquor Law Confirmed
Author: Metropolitan Society for the Protection of Private and Constitutional Rights (New York)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liquor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
Author: Kyle G. VolkPublisher:
ISBN: 0199371911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies spurred by the explosion of grassroots moral reform in the early nineteenth century, he shows how a motley but powerful array of self-understood minorities reshaped American democracy as they battled laws regulating Sabbath observance, alcohol, and interracial contact. Proponents justified these measures with the "democratic" axiom of majority rule. In response, immigrants, black northerners, abolitionists, liquor dealers, Catholics, Jews, Seventh-day Baptists, and others articulated a different vision of democracy requiring the protection of minority rights. These moral minorities prompted a generation of Americans to reassess whether "majority rule" was truly the essence of democracy, and they ensured that majority tyranny would no longer be just the fear of elites and slaveholders. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth-century, minority rights became the concern of a wide range of Americans attempting to live in an increasingly diverse nation. Volk reveals that driving this vast ideological reckoning was the emergence of America's tradition of popular minority-rights politics. To challenge hostile laws and policies, moral minorities worked outside of political parties and at the grassroots. They mobilized elite and ordinary people to form networks of dissent and some of America's first associations dedicated to the protection of minority rights. They lobbied officials and used constitutions and the common law to initiate "test cases" before local and appellate courts. Indeed, the moral minorities of the mid-nineteenth century pioneered fundamental methods of political participation and legal advocacy that subsequent generations of civil-rights and civil-liberties activists would adopt and that are widely used today.
The American Temperance Cyclopaedia of History, Biography, Anecdote, and Illustration
Author: Joseph Beaumont WakeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Biennial Report of the State Librarian to the Governor of the State of Iowa
Author: State Library of IowaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Report for 1871/1873-1903/1905 contains a list of additions to the miscellaneous and law departments.
Legislative Documents Submitted to the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa
Author: Iowa. General AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1608
Book Description
Biennial Report
Author: State Library of IowaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Report of the State Librarian to the ... General Assembly
Author: Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description