The Nature Of Rights At The American Founding And Beyond
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The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond
Author | : Barry Alan Shain |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0813926661 |
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Americans have been claiming and defending rights since long before the nation achieved independence. But few Americans recognize how profoundly the nature of rights has changed over the past three hundred years. In The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond, Barry Alan Shain gathers together essays by some of the leading scholars in American constitutional law and history to examine the nature of rights claims in eighteenth-century America and how they differed, if at all, from today’s understandings. Was America at its founding predominantly individualistic or, in some important way, communal? Similarly, which understanding of rights was of greater centrality: the historical "rights of Englishmen" or abstract natural rights? And who enjoyed these rights, however understood? Everyone? Or only economically privileged and militarily responsible male heads of households? The contributors also consider how such concepts of rights have continued to shape and reshape the American experience of political liberty to this day. Beginning with the arresting transformation in the grounding of rights prompted by the American War of Independence, the volume moves through what the contributors describe as the "Founders’ Bill of Rights" to the "second" Bill of Rights that coincided with the Civil War, and ends with the language of rights erupting from the horrors of the Second World War and its aftermath in the Cold War. By asking what kind of nation the founding generation left us, or intended to leave us, the contributors are then able to compare that nation to the nation we have become. Most, if not all, of the essays demonstrate that the nature of rights in America has been anything but constant, and that the rights defended in the late eighteenth century stand at some distance from those celebrated today. Contributors:Akhil Reed Amar, Yale University * James H. Hutson, Library of Congress * Stephen Macedo, Princeton University * Richard Primus, University of Michigan * Jack N. Rakove, Stanford University * John Phillip Reid, New York University * Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University * A. Gregg Roeber, Pennsylvania State University * Barry Alan Shain, Colgate University * Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania * Leif Wenar, University of Sheffield * Gordon S. Wood, Brown University
The Political Theory of the American Founding
Author | : Thomas G. West |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2017-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107140486 |
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This book provides a complete overview of the Founders' natural rights theory and its policy implications.
The American Founding
Author | : Daniel N. Robinson,Richard N. Williams |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012-06-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781441165145 |
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America's Founding Fathers shared similar beliefs on the nature of civic life and the character of those supposed to be able to self-govern. Although they studied the failed republics of the ancient world, they believed that classical ideals were still applicable to politics. This unique contribution to the literature on American Founding gathers leading thinkers who set out not to relate its history, but its intellectual underpinnings. They explore the Founding Fathers' assumptions about civic life, human nature, political institutions, private morality, aesthetics, education, and history. Chapters on natural law, the Judeo-Christian conception of human nature, the influence of Aristotle and Cicero, the symbolic role of architecture, and the importance of education help understand the foundations that led to the Declaration of Independence and a constitutional charter that aimed to be universal in its human aspirations. This authoritative work provides a conservative response to more liberal interpretations of America. It will enrich the debate on civic life and be a key resource to anyone interested in America's "experiment in ordered liberty."
Beyond Confederation
Author | : Richard Beeman,Stephen Botein,Edward C. Carter II |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807839324 |
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Beyond Confederation scrutinizes the ideological background of the U.S. Constitution, the rigors of its writing and ratification, and the problems it both faced and provoked immediately after ratification. The essays in this collection question much of the heritage of eighteenth-century constitutional thought and suggest that many of the commonly debated issues have led us away from the truly germane questions. The authors challenge many of the traditional generalizations and the terms and scope of that debate as well. The contributors raise fresh questions about the Constitution as it enters its third century. What happened in Philadelphia in 1787, and what happened in the state ratifying conventions? Why did the states--barely--ratify the Constitution? What were Americans of the 1789s attempting to achieve? The exploratory conclusions point strongly to an alternative constitutional tradition, some of it unwritten, much of it rooted in state constitutional law; a tradition that not only has redefined the nature and role of the Constitution but also has placed limitations on its efficacy throughout American history. The authors are Lance Banning, Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, Richard D. Brown, Richard E. Ellis, Paul Finkelman, Stanley N. Katz, Ralph Lerner, Drew R. McCoy, John M. Murrin, Jack N. Rakove, Janet A. Riesman, and Gordon S. Wood.
The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context
Author | : Barry Alan Shain |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300158748 |
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Letters, papers, petitions and proclamations from the mid-18th century in the American colonies, provide a different historical perspective on the Declaration of Independence.
Freedom of Expression
Author | : Ioanna Tourkochoriti |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781316517635 |
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A comparison of French and American approaches to freedom of expression, with reference to the historical, social and philosophical contexts.
The American Founding
Author | : Daniel N. Robinson,Richard N. Williams |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2012-06-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781441142443 |
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Renowned scholars examine the core precepts that guided the American Founding, looking at the Founders' intellectual groundings from philosophy of law to architecture.
Political Peoplehood
Author | : Rogers M. Smith |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2015-09-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780226285122 |
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For more than three decades, Rogers M. Smith has been one of the leading scholars of the role of ideas in American politics, policies, and history. Over time, he has developed the concept of “political peoples,” a category that is much broader and more fluid than legal citizenship, enabling Smith to offer rich new analyses of political communities, governing institutions, public policies, and moral debates. This book gathers Smith’s most important writings on peoplehood to build a coherent theoretical and historical account of what peoplehood has meant in American political life, informed by frequent comparisons to other political societies. From the revolutionary-era adoption of individual rights rhetoric to today’s battles over the place of immigrants in a rapidly diversifying American society, Smith shows how modern America’s growing embrace of overlapping identities is in tension with the providentialism and exceptionalism that continue to make up so much of what many believe it means to be an American. A major work that brings a lifetime of thought to bear on questions that are as urgent now as they have ever been, Political Peoplehood will be essential reading for social scientists, political philosophers, policy analysts, and historians alike.