Author: John Adams
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849693821
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
John Adams was the second President of the United States, ruling the country from 1797 to 1801, and one of the Founding Fathers. He was also a major leader of American independence from Great Britain. This is volume one out of ten of his works, this book containing a detailed biography of this statesman written by his grandson Charles Francis Adams. The text is annotated with more than 250 endnotes.
The Works of John Adams Vol. 1
Author: John Adams
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849693821
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
John Adams was the second President of the United States, ruling the country from 1797 to 1801, and one of the Founding Fathers. He was also a major leader of American independence from Great Britain. This is volume one out of ten of his works, this book containing a detailed biography of this statesman written by his grandson Charles Francis Adams. The text is annotated with more than 250 endnotes.
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849693821
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
John Adams was the second President of the United States, ruling the country from 1797 to 1801, and one of the Founding Fathers. He was also a major leader of American independence from Great Britain. This is volume one out of ten of his works, this book containing a detailed biography of this statesman written by his grandson Charles Francis Adams. The text is annotated with more than 250 endnotes.
History of the Life and Times of James Madison
Author: William Cabell Rives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The Politics and Law of Term Limits
Author: Edward H. Crane
Publisher: Cato Institute
ISBN: 9781882577132
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Eighty percent of the American people say congressional terms should be limited. Fifteen states have already done so, and efforts are spreading to more states and hundreds of cities. Would term limits be a good idea? Would they be constitutional? The Politics and Law of Term Limits presents both sides of the issue and lets the reader decide. Contributors include syndicated columnist George F. Will, League of Women Voters president Becky Cain, Thomas E. Mann of the Brookings Institution, constitutional scholar Ronald D. Rotunda, and former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler, among others. The Founding Fathers did not include term limits in the Constitution because they thought citizen legislators, not professional politicians, would be the rule, and an overwhelming number of voters from every demographic group in the nation believe that should be the case today. Problems such as the burgeoning federal deficit indicate that careerism and legislative "experience" may not be all they are cracked up to be. Proponents of term limits argue that abolishing careerism would open the political process to a new type of candidate - the aspiring citizen legislator - who wishes to take a brief time out from his or her work to make a contribution to society. But opponents of term limits counter that such a change would induce an unhealthy dependence on congressional aides and professional lobbyists. Who is correct? You decide.
Publisher: Cato Institute
ISBN: 9781882577132
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Eighty percent of the American people say congressional terms should be limited. Fifteen states have already done so, and efforts are spreading to more states and hundreds of cities. Would term limits be a good idea? Would they be constitutional? The Politics and Law of Term Limits presents both sides of the issue and lets the reader decide. Contributors include syndicated columnist George F. Will, League of Women Voters president Becky Cain, Thomas E. Mann of the Brookings Institution, constitutional scholar Ronald D. Rotunda, and former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler, among others. The Founding Fathers did not include term limits in the Constitution because they thought citizen legislators, not professional politicians, would be the rule, and an overwhelming number of voters from every demographic group in the nation believe that should be the case today. Problems such as the burgeoning federal deficit indicate that careerism and legislative "experience" may not be all they are cracked up to be. Proponents of term limits argue that abolishing careerism would open the political process to a new type of candidate - the aspiring citizen legislator - who wishes to take a brief time out from his or her work to make a contribution to society. But opponents of term limits counter that such a change would induce an unhealthy dependence on congressional aides and professional lobbyists. Who is correct? You decide.
Anglicizing America
Author: Ignacio Gallup-Diaz
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The thirteen mainland colonies of early America were arguably never more British than on the eve of their War of Independence from Britain. Though home to settlers of diverse national and cultural backgrounds, colonial America gradually became more like Britain in its political and judicial systems, material culture, economies, religious systems, and engagements with the empire. At the same time and by the same process, these politically distinct and geographically distant colonies forged a shared cultural identity--one that would bind them together as a nation during the Revolution. Anglicizing America revisits the theory of Anglicization, considering its application to the history of the Atlantic world, from Britain to the Caribbean to the western wildernesses, at key moments before, during, and after the American Revolution. Ten essays by senior historians trace the complex processes by which global forces, local economies, and individual motives interacted to reinforce a more centralized and unified social movement. They examine the ways English ideas about labor influenced plantation slavery, how Great Britain's imperial aspirations shaped American militarization, the influence of religious tolerance on political unity, and how Americans' relationship to Great Britain after the war impacted the early republic's naval and taxation policies. As a whole, Anglicizing America offers a compelling framework for explaining the complex processes at work in the western hemisphere during the age of revolutions. Contributors: Denver Brunsman, William Howard Carter, Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Anthony M. Joseph, Simon P. Newman, Geoffrey Plank, Nancy L. Rhoden, Andrew Shankman, Jeremy A. Stern, David J. Silverman.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The thirteen mainland colonies of early America were arguably never more British than on the eve of their War of Independence from Britain. Though home to settlers of diverse national and cultural backgrounds, colonial America gradually became more like Britain in its political and judicial systems, material culture, economies, religious systems, and engagements with the empire. At the same time and by the same process, these politically distinct and geographically distant colonies forged a shared cultural identity--one that would bind them together as a nation during the Revolution. Anglicizing America revisits the theory of Anglicization, considering its application to the history of the Atlantic world, from Britain to the Caribbean to the western wildernesses, at key moments before, during, and after the American Revolution. Ten essays by senior historians trace the complex processes by which global forces, local economies, and individual motives interacted to reinforce a more centralized and unified social movement. They examine the ways English ideas about labor influenced plantation slavery, how Great Britain's imperial aspirations shaped American militarization, the influence of religious tolerance on political unity, and how Americans' relationship to Great Britain after the war impacted the early republic's naval and taxation policies. As a whole, Anglicizing America offers a compelling framework for explaining the complex processes at work in the western hemisphere during the age of revolutions. Contributors: Denver Brunsman, William Howard Carter, Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Anthony M. Joseph, Simon P. Newman, Geoffrey Plank, Nancy L. Rhoden, Andrew Shankman, Jeremy A. Stern, David J. Silverman.
Prologue
Works of Fisher Ames
Author: Fisher Ames
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Fisher Ames was a leading New England Federalist and sublime critic of Jacobin Democracy and the French Revolution. During the presidency of George Washington, he was the leader of his party in the House of Representatives. Ames was active in public life from 1787 through 1807 and was instrumental in one drafting of the First Amendment to the Constitution. His witty, often brilliant, letters, speeches, and essays offered a sustained defense of conservative principles and insight into the Federalist theory of government. This enlarged edition includes many speeches and writings by Ames that were omitted from the original edition of Ames' works published in 1854.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Fisher Ames was a leading New England Federalist and sublime critic of Jacobin Democracy and the French Revolution. During the presidency of George Washington, he was the leader of his party in the House of Representatives. Ames was active in public life from 1787 through 1807 and was instrumental in one drafting of the First Amendment to the Constitution. His witty, often brilliant, letters, speeches, and essays offered a sustained defense of conservative principles and insight into the Federalist theory of government. This enlarged edition includes many speeches and writings by Ames that were omitted from the original edition of Ames' works published in 1854.
Colonial and Economic History
The works of John Adams, second President of the United States. Volume 1
Author: ADAMS
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623764629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623764629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy
Author: Charles Austin Beard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Great Catalogue Sale of ... Books ... on Law, Medicine, History ...
Author: Sylvanus G. Deeth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description