Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American RepublicDavid Thomas Konig Stanford University Press, 1995 - 383 strani The nine chapters in this book focus on the various constitutional problems surrounding the need to provide simultaneously a sufficient degree of union and public authority to guarantee defense and order, and a sufficient degree of individual liberty to satisfy the demands and expectations of private citizens who were wary of the arbitrary powers of government. |
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Political Economy and the Creation of | 11 |
The Expanding Union | 50 |
Land and Liberty on the PostRevolutionary | 81 |
The Meaning of Freedom for Waterfront | 109 |
The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in | 141 |
CONTENTS | 169 |
Jurisprudence and Social Policy in the | 178 |
From the Bonds of Empire to the Bonds | 217 |
The Second Great Awakening and | 243 |
The Problem of Slavery in Southern Political | 265 |
Abbreviations | 301 |
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