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Author : Timothy Ballard
Publisher : Digital Legend Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 1937735125
Author : Phillip Shaw Paludan
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014566189
Author : Phillip S. Paludan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:651329925
Author : Paul D. Moreno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107067714
This book tells the story of constitutional government in America during the period of the 'social question'. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, and before the 'second Reconstruction' and cultural revolution of the 1960s, Americans dealt with the challenges of the urban and industrial revolutions. In the crises of the American Revolution and the Civil War, the American founders - and then Lincoln and the Republicans - returned to a long tradition of Anglo-American constitutional principles. During the Industrial Revolution, American political thinkers and actors gradually abandoned those principles for a set of modern ideas, initially called progressivism. The social crisis, culminating in the Great Depression, did not produce a Lincoln to return to the founders' principles, but rather a series of leaders who repudiated them. Since the New Deal, Americans have lived in a constitutional twilight, not having completely abandoned the natural-rights constitutionalism of the founders, nor embraced the entitlement-based welfare state of modern liberalism.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116492976
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393652581
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. They established the principle of birthright citizenship and guaranteed the privileges and immunities of all citizens. The federal government, not the states, was charged with enforcement, reversing the priority of the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner’s compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre–Civil War mass meetings of African-American “colored citizens” and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. A series of momentous decisions by the Supreme Court narrowed the rights guaranteed in the amendments, while the states actively undermined them. The Jim Crow system was the result. Again today there are serious political challenges to birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process, and equal protection of the law. Like all great works of history, this one informs our understanding of the present as well as the past: knowledge and vigilance are always necessary to secure our basic rights.
Author : Cathleen Kaveny
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674969384
The culture wars have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny focuses on a powerful stream of religious discourse in American political speech: the Biblical rhetoric of prophetic indictment. It can be strong medicine against threats to the body politic, she shows, but used injudiciously it does more harm than good.
Author : Daniel Kornstein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803278217
Two-thirds of Shakespeare?s plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, courts, judges, and points of law. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, looks at the legal issues and aspects of Shakespeare?s plays and finds fascinating parallels with many legal and social questions of the present day. The Elizabethan age was as litigious as our own, and Shakespeare was very familiar with the language and procedures of the courts. Kill All the Lawyers? examines the ways in which Shakespeare used the law for dramatic effect and incorporated the passion for justice into his great tragedies and comedies and considers the modern legal relevance of his work. ø This is a ground-breaking study in the field of literature and the law, ambitious and suggestive of the value of both our literary and our legal inheritance.
Author : Elliot Vernon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137291707
The Agreements of the People were a series of written constitutions proposed variously by Levellers, soldiers and citizens for the settlement of the nation at the height of the English Revolution. The essays in this book explore the various Agreements in the context of the constitutional crisis that engulfed England in the late 1640s and 1650s.
Author : Jim Belcher
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830847655
America's political landscape is experiencing dangerous polarization and fragmentation, with the extremes pulling the country apart. Voices on the left and right clash over different worldviews, definitions of America, and what it means to be an American citizen. The levels of incivility and hostility lead some to invoke the language of a cold civil war or even a looming civil war: one that could split the country in two. Is there any way to step back from this dangerous precipice? Political philosopher Jim Belcher shows that this is not merely a binary opposition between conservativism on the right and liberalism on the left, but also between conflicting visions of order and freedom on both sides. Through his unique quadrant framework, Belcher traces the people and movements in each position, examines their underlying narratives, and articulates their respective contributions and dangers. This quadrant framework not only reveals how polarization divides us but also shows us how to move beyond the right-left stalemate. At the core of the competing visions are the seeds of a new vital center, a robust and surprising model that has the ability to transcend political tribalism and bring America back together again before it is too late.
Author : Jane Plummer Thurston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Inheritance and succession
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU01497111
Author : Alison Clark Efford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107031937
This study reframes Civil War-era history, arguing that the Franco-Prussian War contributed to a dramatic pivot in Northern commitment to African-American rights.
Author : Michael A. Tomlan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319049755
This well-illustrated book offers an up-to-date synthesis of the field of historic preservation, cast as a social campaign concerned with the condition, treatment and use of the legacy of existing properties in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of research, experience and scholarship over the last fifty years, it allows us to re-think past and current ideas in preservation, challenging readers to explore how their own interests lie within the cognitive framework of the activities taking place with people who care. “Who” is involved is explored first, in such a way as to explore “why”, before examining “what” is deemed important. After that the questions of “when” and “how” to proceed are given attention. The major topics are introduced in an historical review through the mid-1980s, after which the broad intellectual basis and fundamental legal framework is provided. The economic shifts associated with major demographic changes are explored, in tandem with responses of the preservation community. A chapter is dedicated to the financial challenges and sources of revenue available in typical preservation projects, and another chapter focuses on the manner in which seeing, recording, and interpreting information provides the context for an appropriate vision for the future. In this regard, it is made clear that not all “green” design alternatives are preservation-sensitive. The advocacy battles during the last few decades provide a number of short stories of the ethical battles regarding below-ground and above ground historic resources, and the eighth chapter attempts to explain why religion has been long held at arm’s length in publicly-supported preservation efforts, when in fact, it holds more potential to regenerate existing sites than any governmental program.
Author : Joseph Postell,Johnathan O'Neill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498533911
This book is a collection of primary source documents from leading constitutional conservatives during the period 1900-1930, many reproduced for the first time. The readings address the main political issues of the Progressive Era, such as economic regulation, federalism, executive power, and foreign policy.
Author : John Kane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521663571
It is often said that politics is an amoral realm of power and interest in which moral judgment is irrelevant. In this book, by contrast, John Kane argues that people's positive moral judgments of political actors and institutions provide leaders with an important resource, which he christens 'moral capital'. Negative judgements cause a loss of moral capital which jeopardizes legitimacy and political survival. Studies of several historical and contemporary leaders - Lincoln, de Gaulle, Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi - illustrate the significance of moral capital for political legitimation, mobilizing support, and the creation of strategic opportunities. In the book's final section, Kane applies his arguments to the American presidency from Kennedy to Clinton. He argues that a moral crisis has afflicted the nation at its mythical heart and has been refracted through and enacted within its central institutions, eroding the moral capital of government and people and undermining the nation's morale.