Devising Liberty
Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic
Published on 27. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-8047-4193-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-4193-4 (9780804741934)
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Content
Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction David Thomas Konig 1. Political economy and the creation of the Federal Republic Lance Banning 2. The expanding union Peter S. Onuf 3. Land and liberty on the post-revolutionary frontier Alan Taylor 4. The meaning of freedom for waterfront workers Paul A. Gilie 5. The ideas of an informed citizenry in the Early Republic Richard D. Brown 6. Jurisprudence and social policy in the New Republic David Thomas Konig 7. From the bonds of empire to the bonds of matrimony Norma Basch 8. The second great awakening and the market revolution Nathan O. Hatch 9. The problem of slavery in Southern political discourse Jan Lewis Abbreviations Notes Index.