True Cost Of Liberty

Author : Ben Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571251773

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What Price Liberty? by Ben Wilson Pdf

Individual liberty will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, while fear of terrorism, crime and social chaos has put our ideas of liberty into retreat in recent years. It is clear that there is not just a crisis of liberty, but a crisis in the way people talk about liberty. How do we, as individuals, negotiate the maximum amount of freedom in such a complex world? How can we resist the growth of intrusive authoritarianism without exposing ourselves to crime, terrorism and other risks? Even those who instinctively support social freedoms are losing confidence when confronted with such hard truths. History provides a guide to answering these questions. We have a rich legacy to draw upon to help define our approach to current problems. Yet it is a history which we are in danger of forgetting or misreading. In What Price Liberty? Ben Wilson travels through four centuries of British, American and European history, elaborating not just how civil liberties were constructed in the past, but how they were continually re-thought -and re-fought - in response to modernity. The last chapters put into context the controversies of the last decade or so-the threat of terrorism and the rise of the database nation. If liberty is to survive now it must, like it did in the past, adapt to new circumstances. But to do this we need to agree about the value we place on liberty.

Author : William Murchison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497635500

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The Cost of Liberty by William Murchison Pdf

“Makes a powerful and convincing case for restoring John Dickinson to his rightful place in the first rank of the Founders.” —The Washington Times The Cost of Liberty offers a sorely needed reassessment of a great patriot and misunderstood Founder. It has been more than a half century since a biography of John Dickinson appeared. Author William Murchison rectifies this mistake, bringing to life one of the most influential figures of the entire Founding period, a principled man whose gifts as writer, speaker, and philosopher only Jefferson came near to matching. In the process, Murchison destroys the caricature of Dickinson that has emerged from such popular treatments as HBO’s John Adams miniseries and the Broadway musical 1776. Dickinson is remembered mostly for his reluctance to sign the Declaration of Independence. But that reluctance, Murchison shows, had nothing to do with a lack of patriotism. In fact, Dickinson immediately took up arms to serve the colonial cause—something only one signer of the Declaration did. He stood on principle to oppose declaring independence at that moment, even when he knew that doing so would deal the “finishing blow” to his once-great reputation. Dubbed the “Penman of the Revolution,” Dickinson was not just a scribe but also a shaper of mighty events. From the 1760s through the late 1780s he was present at, and played a significant role in, every major assemblage where the Founders charted America’s path—a claim few others could make. Author of the landmark essays Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, delegate to the Continental Congress, key figure behind the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, chief executive of both Pennsylvania and Delaware: Dickinson was, as one esteemed historian aptly put it, “the most underrated of all the Founders.” This lively biography gives a great Founder his long-overdue measure of honor.

Author : John Bona,Don Schanzenbach
Publisher : BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781424552900

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The Liberty Book by John Bona,Don Schanzenbach Pdf

News reports bring to our ears daily stories of further intrusion in our lives and increased regulations too many to number. America is losing its heritage of God-given freedoms, which were originally derived from biblical teaching. We sense that our well-sung liberties are being lost to a point of no return. The Liberty Book examines the Christian roots of liberty, idolatry, taxation, foundations for freedom, the right to bear arms, the great freedom documents in history, pro-life and liberty, land rights, social involvement, and more. With God’s help freedom can be revived. We must all work to pull America back from the cliffs-edge fall into tyranny. Our nation is again in search of genuine liberty under God. Discover what Bible-based liberty looks like and how it can be won for you and your children.

Author : Ronald Dworkin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674253780

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Sovereign Virtue by Ronald Dworkin Pdf

Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin insists, to the contrary, that equality is the indispensable virtue of democratic sovereignty. A legitimate government must treat all its citizens as equals, that is, with equal respect and concern, and, since the economic distribution that any society achieves is mainly the consequence of its system of law and policy, that requirement imposes serious egalitarian constraints on that distribution. What distribution of a nation's wealth is demanded by equal concern for all? Dworkin draws upon two fundamental humanist principles--first, it is of equal objective importance that all human lives flourish, and second, each person is responsible for defining and achieving the flourishing of his or her own life--to ground his well-known thesis that true equality means equality in the value of the resources that each person commands, not in the success he or she achieves. Equality, freedom, and individual responsibility are therefore not in conflict, but flow from and into one another as facets of the same humanist conception of life and politics. Since no abstract political theory can be understood except in the context of actual and complex political issues, Dworkin develops his thesis by applying it to heated contemporary controversies about the distribution of health care, unemployment benefits, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, assisted suicide, and genetic engineering.

Author : Andreas Hess
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 0814736572

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American Social and Political Thought by Andreas Hess Pdf

This concise, comprehensive primer on modern American social and political thought is the ideal introduction to the rich intellectual tradition of the United Sates. Andreas Hess helps the reader to understand of American culture and politics through careful exploration of key and theorists. In the first half of the book he focuses on the core traditions of American social and political thought American exceptionalism, Calvinist Protestantism, republicanism, liberalism and 20th century pragmatism. The second half of the book applies these traditions to a broad range of 20th century conditions and issues power and democracy, justice and injustice, multiculturalism and pluralism, civil society, social theory and the role of the intellectual. The works of some of the most influential figures in the field, such as De Tocqueville, Lipset, Arendt, Hartz, Pocock, Dewey, Moore, Rawls, Walzer, Rorty and Alexander, are drawn upon to illustrate the theories and issues being discussed. Accessibly written and jargon free, this treatment will be useful for students and scholars alike.

Author : R.G. Yoho
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9798890220431

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America's History is His Story by R.G. Yoho Pdf

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR America's History is His Story, is a daily devotional of history and patriotism. If you embrace the power of the Christian faith, if you love the United States of America, if you cherish your family, and if you respect the contributions of our brave military personnel, then you should love this book. Each daily reading is brimming with the qualities of faith, family and freedom.

Author : Megan A. Woodworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317145424

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Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Gentleman's Liberation Movement by Megan A. Woodworth Pdf

In the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women writers treat their heroines and how they engage with contemporary political debates, particularly those relating to the French Revolution. Megan Woodworth argues that women writers' ideas about their own liberty are also present in their treatment of male characters. In positing a 'Gentleman's Liberation Movement,' she suggests that Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen all used their creative powers to liberate men from the very institutions and ideas about power, society, and gender that promote the subjection of women. Their writing juxtaposes the role of women in the private spheres with men's engagement in political structures and successive wars for independence (the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars). The failures associated with fighting these wars and the ideological debates surrounding them made plain, at least to these women writers, that in denying the universality of these natural freedoms, their liberating effects would be severely compromised. Thus, to win the same rights for which men fought, women writers sought to remake men as individuals freed from the tyranny of their patriarchal inheritance.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Inland navigation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045419350

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Maritime Legislation, 1961 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Considers. S. 677, to amend the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 to allow ships receiving operating-differential subsidies to cruise off their regular routes during the off-season without losing their subsidies. H. J. Res. 21, to authorize Commerce Dept sale of ten Liberty Type merchant ships for private conversion into barges. S. 576 and H.R. 3158, to amend the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 to revise U.S. Merchant Marine Academy personnel policies. S. 682, to permit vessels passing under bridges temporary exemption from rules of navigation regarding lights and signals. S. 966, to authorize construction of three Coast Guard cutters.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Liberty
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024786071

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : Ron Paul
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781455504435

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Liberty Defined by Ron Paul Pdf

In Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliché. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty? Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America. This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul's position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, LIBERTY DEFINED sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063755289

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FCC Record by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Susanne Albers,Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela,Yossi Matias,Sotiris Nikoletseas,Wolfgang Thomas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642029271

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Automata, Languages and Programming by Susanne Albers,Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela,Yossi Matias,Sotiris Nikoletseas,Wolfgang Thomas Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1538 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030034090268

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Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, on Civil Works Activities by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Author : Vikas Singla
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000453461

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Operations Research Using Excel by Vikas Singla Pdf

The field of operations research provides a scientific approach to managerial decision making. In a contemporary, hypercompetitive ever-changing business world, a manager needs quantitative and factual ways of solving problems related to optimal allocation of resources, profit/loss, maximization/minimization etc. In this endeavor, the subject of doing research on how to manage and make operations efficient is termed as Operations Research. The reference text provides conceptual and analytical knowledge for various operations research techniques. Readers, especially students of this subject, are skeptic in dealing with the subject because of its emphasis on mathematics. However, this book has tried to remove such doubts by focusing on the application part of OR techniques with minimal usage of mathematics. The attempt was to make students comfortable with some complicated topics of the subject. It covers important concepts including sensitivity analysis, duality theory, transportation solution method, Hungarian algorithm, program evaluation and review technique and periodic review system. Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of mechanical engineering, civil engineering, industrial engineering and production engineering, this book: • Discusses extensive use of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and formulas in solving operations research problems • Provides case studies and unsolved exercises at the end of each chapter • Covers industrial applications of various operations research techniques in a comprehensive manner • Discusses creating spreadsheets and using different Excel formulas in an easy-to-understand manner • Covers problem-solving procedures for techniques including linear programming, transportation model and game theory

Author : Pat DiGeorge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 099825701X

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Liberty Lady by Pat DiGeorge Pdf

LIBERTY LADY is the true story of a WWII bomber and its crew forced to land in neutral Sweden during the Eighth Air Force's first large-scale daylight bombing raid on Berlin. 1st Lt. Herman Allen was interned and began working for his country's espionage agency, the OSS, with instructions to befriend a businessman suspected of selling secrets to the Germans. Soon Herman fell in love with a beautiful Swedish-American secretary working for the OSS, their courtship unfolding amid the glamour and intrigue of wartime Stockholm. As Swedish newspapers trumpeted one of the biggest spy scandals of the war, two of the main protagonists walked down the aisle in a storybook wedding presided over by the nephew of the King of Sweden.