Vindicating The Commercial Republic

Author : Anthony A. Peacock
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498553483

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Vindicating the Commercial Republic by Anthony A. Peacock Pdf

Contrary to most academic commentary on The Federalist, this book contends thatthe most significant teachings of the work did not have to do with the institutions of government so much as with the non-institutional features of American constitutionalism, specifically its advocacy for greater union, the development of an unparalleled culture of enterprise, and provision for war. Key to understanding why these features were so critical to The Federalist is the work’s rejection of classical liberalism’s orthodoxy that commercial republics were moderate or pacific in nature rather than spirited, enterprising, and warlike. Using the ancient historian Thucydides account of the daring, innovation, and restlessness of ancient commercial Athens as an interpretive guide for the commercial republican theory that The Federalist embraces, this book provides a sweeping reinterpretation of American constitutionalism. At the heart of The Federalist’s teaching, Peacock contends, is the intention to create an innovative and spirited culture of enterprise that will not only inform America’s civil character post-1787 but its military character as well. No scholarship has considered the significance of Thucydides to the The Federalist. This book does in a comprehensive reconstruction of the work that concludes that The Federalist anticipates as well as any text on American constitutionalism what many consider to be the most definitive features of American character today: its spirit of enterprise and its qualified willingness to engage in war for both reasons of national interest and republican principle.

Author : Anthony A Peacock
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498553494

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Vindicating the Commercial Republic by Anthony A Peacock Pdf

This book provides a sweeping reinterpretation of The Federalist, using the ancient historian Thucydides' account of ancient commercial Athens as an interpretive guide. It argues that The Federalist highlights the importance of a new commercial republic that promotes a culture...

Author : Christopher R. W. Dietrich
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119459408

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A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations by Christopher R. W. Dietrich Pdf

Covers the entire range of the history of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial period to the beginning of the 21st century. A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations is an authoritative guide to past and present scholarship on the history of American diplomacy and foreign relations from its seventeenth century origins to the modern day. This two-volume reference work presents a collection of historiographical essays by prominent scholars. The essays explore three centuries of America’s global interactions and the ways U.S. foreign policies have been analyzed and interpreted over time. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on the history of U.S. foreign relations; analyze the causes, influences, and consequences of major foreign policy decisions; and address contemporary debates surrounding the practice of American power. The Companion covers a wide variety of methodologies, integrating political, military, economic, social and cultural history to explore the ideas and events that shaped U.S. diplomacy and foreign relations and continue to influence national identity. The essays discuss topics such as the links between U.S. foreign relations and the study of ideology, race, gender, and religion; Native American history, expansion, and imperialism; industrialization and modernization; domestic and international politics; and the United States’ role in decolonization, globalization, and the Cold War. A comprehensive approach to understanding the history, influences, and drivers of U.S. foreign relation, this indispensable resource: Examines significant foreign policy events and their subsequent interpretations Places key figures and policies in their historical, national, and international contexts Provides background on recent and current debates in U.S. foreign policy Explores the historiography and primary sources for each topic Covers the development of diverse themes and methodologies in histories of U.S. foreign policy Offering scholars, teachers, and students unmatched chronological breadth and analytical depth, A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to the Present is an important contribution to scholarship on the history of America’s interactions with the world.

Author : David Klein,Morgan Marietta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030112554

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SCOTUS 2018 by David Klein,Morgan Marietta Pdf

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This inaugural volume in Palgrave’s new SCOTUS series describes, explains, and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the term ending in 2018, covering issues such as gay rights, religious liberty, public sector unions, coerced speech, digital privacy, voting rights, and the Trump travel ban. Bringing together notable scholars of the Court in one volume, the chapters in Scotus 2018 present the details of each ruling in its specific case, its meaning for constitutional debate, and its impact on public policy or partisan politics. Finally, SCOTUS 2018 offers a big-picture look at Justice Neil Gorsuch’s first full term in office, the legal and political legacy of former Justice Anthony Kennedy, and the controversial nomination and confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Author : Samuel Gregg
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781641772778

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The Next American Economy by Samuel Gregg Pdf

Americans across the political spectrum have turned away from free market capitalism, calling for more government intervention into the economy. This optimistic book explains how a dynamic, Commercial Republic that benefits all Americans is still possible. "Will someone intent on changing the direction of America’s economy seize on this text and send it far and wide?” —Hugh Hewitt, author, attorney, and national host of The Hugh Hewitt Show “Markets grounded in a commercial republic are what America needs. Gregg shows why.” —Vernon L. Smith, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor of Business Economics and Law at Chapman University One of America’s greatest success stories is its economy. For over a century, it has been the envy of the world. The opportunity it generates has inspired millions of people to want to become American. Today, however, America’s economy is at a crossroads. Many have lost confidence in the country’s commitment to economic liberty. Across the political spectrum, many want the government to play an even greater role in the economy via protectionism, industrial policy, stakeholder capitalism, or even quasi-socialist policies. Numerous American political and business leaders are embracing these ideas, and traditional defenders of markets have struggled to respond to these challenges in fresh ways. Then there is a resurgent China bent on eclipsing the United States’s place in the world. At stake is not only the future of the world’s biggest economy, but the economic liberty that remains central to America’s identity as a nation. But managed decline and creeping statism do not have to be America’s only choices, let alone its destiny. For this book insists that there is an alternative. And that is a vibrant market economy grounded on entrepreneurship, competition, and trade openness, but embedded in what America’s founding generation envisaged as the United States’s future: a dynamic Commercial Republic that takes freedom, commerce, and the common good of all Americans seriously, and allows America as a sovereign-nation to pursue and defend its interests in a dangerous world without compromising its belief in the power of economic freedom.

Author : Ryan McMaken
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610167611

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Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities by Ryan McMaken Pdf

Breaking Away differs from countless other books on secession and decentralization in that it considers examples and benefits of secession and radical decentralization in a much broader historical, geographical, and theoretical context. This book is for anyone interested in how issues of secession and decentralization come up again and again worldwide as communities of human beings seek self-determination, freedom, and economic prosperity. McMaken also examines small states which are often examples of successful cases of secession and radical decentralization. The reader will come away with a better understanding of how political decentralization continues to be relevant, useful, and important in the modern world.

Author : Aziz Z. Huq
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197556832

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The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies by Aziz Z. Huq Pdf

An exploration of how and why the Constitution's plan for independent courts has failed to protect individuals' constitutional rights, while advancing regressive and reactionary barriers to progressive regulation. Just recently, the Supreme Court rejected an argument by plaintiffs that police officers should no longer be protected by the doctrine of "qualified immunity" when they shoot or brutalize an innocent civilian. "Qualified immunity" is but one of several judicial inventions that shields state violence and thwarts the vindication of our rights. But aren't courts supposed to be protectors of individual rights? As Aziz Huq shows in The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies, history reveals a much more tangled relationship between the Constitution's system of independent courts and the protection of constitutional rights. While doctrines such as "qualified immunity" may seem abstract, their real-world harms are anything but. A highway patrol officer stops a person's car in violation of the Fourth Amendment, violently yanked the person out and threw him to the ground, causing brain damage. A municipal agency fires a person for testifying in a legal proceeding involving her boss's family-and then laughed in her face when she demanded her job back. In all these cases, state defendants walked away with the most minor of penalties (if any at all). Ultimately, we may have rights when challenging the state, but no remedies. In fact, federal courts have long been fickle and unreliable guardians of individual rights. To be sure, through the mid-twentieth century, the courts positioned themselves as the ultimate protector of citizens suffering the state's infringement of their rights. But they have more recently abandoned, and even aggressively repudiated, a role as the protector of individual rights in the face of abuses by the state. Ironically, this collapse highlights the position that the Framers took when setting up federal courts in the first place. A powerful historical account of the how the expansion of the immunity principle generated yawning gap between rights and remedies in contemporary America, The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies will reshape our understanding of why it has become so difficult to effectively challenge crimes committed by the state.

Author : Francis Patrick HENRICK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BDM:13020100006357

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The primacy of the Apostoloc See vindicated by Francis Patrick HENRICK Pdf

Author : Francis Patrick KENRICK (successively R.C. Bishop of Arath and of Philadelphia, and Archbishop of Baltimore.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020001721

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The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated by Francis Patrick KENRICK (successively R.C. Bishop of Arath and of Philadelphia, and Archbishop of Baltimore.) Pdf

Author : Francis Patrick Kenrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Apostolic succession
ISBN : HARVARD:HWT5EX

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The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated by Francis Patrick Kenrick Pdf

Author : Harvard Law Review
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610279284

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Harvard Law Review by Harvard Law Review Pdf

The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition for ereaders, featuring active Contents, linked footnotes, legible tables, and proper ebook formatting. This current issue of the Review is November 2012, the first issue of academic year 2012-2013 (Volume 126). The November issue is the special annual review of the Supreme Court’s previous term. Each year, the issue is introduced by noteworthy andextensive articles from recognized scholars. In this issue, the Foreword is authored by Pamela Karlan, on “democracy and disdain.” Extensive Comments by Gillian Metzger and Martha Minow explore the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Health Care Act and Chief Justice Roberts’s reasoning, while Stephanos Bibas discusses the gray market of plea bargaining and the potential involvement of neutral judges in the process. In addition, the first issue of each new volume provides an extensive summary of the important cases of the previous Supreme Court docket, covering a wide range of legal, political and constitutional subjects.

Author : Adam ROTHMAN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674042919

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Slave Country by Adam ROTHMAN Pdf

Slave Country tells the tragic story of the expansion of slavery in the new United States. In the wake of the American Revolution, slavery gradually disappeared from the northern states and the importation of captive Africans was prohibited. Yet, at the same time, the country's slave population grew, new plantation crops appeared, and several new slave states joined the Union. Adam Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South. Rothman maps the combination of transatlantic capitalism and American nationalism that provoked a massive forced migration of slaves into Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. He tells the fascinating story of collaboration and conflict among the diverse European, African, and indigenous peoples who inhabited the Deep South during the Jeffersonian era, and who turned the region into the most dynamic slave system of the Atlantic world. Paying close attention to dramatic episodes of resistance, rebellion, and war, Rothman exposes the terrible violence that haunted the Jeffersonian vision of republican expansion across the American continent. Slave Country combines political, economic, military, and social history in an elegant narrative that illuminates the perilous relation between freedom and slavery in the early United States. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in an honest look at America's troubled past.

Author : Thomas G. West
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442210271

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Vindicating the Founders by Thomas G. West Pdf

This controversial, convincing, and highly original book is important reading for everyone concerned about the origins, present, and future of the American experiment in self-government.

Author : William Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Europe
ISBN : ONB:+Z175693509

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A Vindication of the Cause of Great Britain by William Hunter Pdf

Author : William HUNTER (Barrister-at-Law)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019121498

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A Vindication of the cause of Great Britain; with stricutres on the insolent and perfidious conduct of France, since the signature of the preliminaries of peace. To which is added, a postscript, on the situation of the continent, and the projected invasion of this country. The second edition by William HUNTER (Barrister-at-Law) Pdf