Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Acts and Resolutions of the United States of America
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Acts and Resolutions of the United States of America, Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, and at the First Session of the Fortieth Congress
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Acts and Resolutions of the Second Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Montgomery, Ala
Author: Confederate States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Tennessee Session Laws
Author: TennesseePublisher:
ISBN: 9781021871510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
United States Code
Author: United StatesPublic Laws of the Confederate States of America
Author: Confederate States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
American States of Nature
Author: Mark SomosPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190909560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
American States of Nature transforms our understanding of the American Revolution and the early makings of the Constitution. The journey to an independent United States generated important arguments about the existing condition of Americans, in which rival interpretations of the term "state of nature" played a crucial role. "State of nature" typically implied a pre-political condition and was often invoked in support of individual rights to property and self-defense and the right to exit or to form a political state. It could connote either a paradise, a baseline condition of virtue and health, or a hell on earth. This mutable phrase was well-known in Europe and its empires. In the British colonies, "state of nature" appeared thousands of times in juridical, theological, medical, political, economic, and other texts from 1630 to 1810. But by the 1760s, a distinctively American state-of-nature discourse started to emerge. It combined existing meanings and sidelined others in moments of intense contestation, such as the Stamp Act crisis of 1765-66 and the First Continental Congress of 1774. In laws, resolutions, petitions, sermons, broadsides, pamphlets, letters, and diaries, the American states of nature came to justify independence at least as much as colonial formulations of liberty, property, and individual rights did. In this groundbreaking book, Mark Somos focuses on the formative decade and a half just before the American Revolution. Somos' investigation begins with a 1761 speech by James Otis that John Adams described as "a dissertation on the state of nature," and celebrated as the real start of the Revolution. Drawing on an enormous range of both public and personal writings, many rarely or never before discussed, the book follows the development of America's state-of-nature discourse to 1775. The founding generation transformed this flexible concept into a powerful theme that shapes their legacy to this day. No constitutional history of the Revolution can be written without it.
Acts and Resolutions Relating Chiefly to the Navy, Navy Department, and Marine Corps
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval law
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Author: United States