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Liberty and Coercion
Author | : Gary Gerstle |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691178219 |
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How the conflict between federal and state power has shaped American history American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion, and schooling on their neighbors. These contradictory stances on the role of public power have paralyzed policymaking and generated rancorous disputes about government’s legitimate scope. How did we reach this political impasse? Historian Gary Gerstle, looking at two hundred years of U.S. history, argues that the roots of the current crisis lie in two contrasting theories of power that the Framers inscribed in the Constitution. One theory shaped the federal government, setting limits on its power in order to protect personal liberty. Another theory molded the states, authorizing them to go to extraordinary lengths, even to the point of violating individual rights, to advance the "good and welfare of the commonwealth." The Framers believed these theories could coexist comfortably, but conflict between the two has largely defined American history. Gerstle shows how national political leaders improvised brilliantly to stretch the power of the federal government beyond where it was meant to go—but at the cost of giving private interests and state governments too much sway over public policy. The states could be innovative, too. More impressive was their staying power. Only in the 1960s did the federal government, impelled by the Cold War and civil rights movement, definitively assert its primacy. But as the power of the central state expanded, its constitutional authority did not keep pace. Conservatives rebelled, making the battle over government’s proper dominion the defining issue of our time. From the Revolution to the Tea Party, and the Bill of Rights to the national security state, Liberty and Coercion is a revelatory account of the making and unmaking of government in America.
American Liberty and Government Questioned
Author | : Thomas Ryle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433081804084 |
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The Genius of American Liberty
Author | : Frances Harriet Green |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Slavery |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105047843755 |
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Recovering American Liberty
Author | : Robert Lowry MD,Dagne Florine PhD |
Publsiher | : Archway Publishing |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2020-01-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781480841703 |
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Many Americans today realize that their own government is steadily becoming the greatest danger and threat to their rights, liberties, and future prosperity. In their attempt to right the errant ways of American government, millions of Americans have looked to the Constitution for answers, and yet “what is Constitutional” continues to elude those that we the people elect to political office. In Recovering American Liberty, the authors note the importance of the Constitution, but present an argument that contemporary Americans have lost sight of the ethical principles that the Constitution was conceived and written in, and ratified only in the light of – those being the self-evident truth principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence. Recovering American Liberty explores the Declaration of Independence and each of those self-evident truths. The authors reason that without Americans first becoming a people who once again embrace these principles in the Declaration, then all their efforts to Make America Great Again, will be for not. For, it is only because Americans once honored these principles in their personal lives, that America as a nation, became Great in the first place.
Being America
Author | : Jedediah Purdy |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780307424945 |
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Having risen to national attention with his first book, For Common Things, Jedediah Purdy now cements his claim to being one of the most arresting public intellectuals of his generation. In Being America, Purdy turns his erudition and unique perspective to America’s relationship with a world that both admires and hates it. Purdy has absorbed insights from people around the world: Westernized Egyptians who consider Osama bin Laden a hero, an urbane Indian who espouses gay rights and the most thuggish kind of Hindu nationalism, Cambodian sweat-shop workers, and others. Out of these conversations—and his inspired readings of political thinkers from Edmund Burke to James Madison—Purdy breathes new meaning into the American values of democracy, liberty, and free trade. Clear-thinking and far-sighted, Being America encourages America to strive to realize the potential it doesn’t always know it has.
Liberty and Freedom
Author | : David Hackett Fischer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195162536 |
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The bestselling author of "Washington's Crossing" and "Albion's Seed" offers a strikingly original history of America's founding principles. Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. 400+ illustrations, 250 in full color.
Reclaim American Liberty
Author | : Herbert I. London,Carol Taber |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-12 |
Genre | : Human rights |
ISBN | : 0761857893 |
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The presidential election of 2008 ushered in a period of dramatic transformation. Public dissatisfaction expressed itself as a desire to reclaim liberty. This book, based on a series of presentations at the Hudson Institute-Family Security Matters Conference, attempts to capture this fervent political spirit.