Roots of the Republic: American Founding Documents InterpretedStephen L. Schechter Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 01 նոյ, 1991 թ. - 472 էջ Roots of the Republic shows how the Constitution was a product, not simply of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but of a legal and philosophical tradition almost two centuries old. The editors have selected eighteen key documents in the development of that tradition and reproduced them with essays that explain what they mean, why they were written, and why they are important today. Each key document is accompanied by an interpretive essay written by a contemporary scholar. These essays focus on the importance of each frame of government and include commentaries on why they are meaningful today. Intended to help readers learn how to read and understand these documents, the book is also a handy reference and a strong introduction to the development of political thought and the debates surrounding the formation of the state governments and the federal union. |
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... Civil War , loyalty oaths and disputes over citizenship were used as political weapons . This was especially true of the harsh measures taken by the new Revolutionary governments against both the Loyalists and those who sought to remain ...
... Civil War , loyalty oaths and disputes over citizenship were used as political weapons . This was especially true of the harsh measures taken by the new Revolutionary governments against both the Loyalists and those who sought to remain ...
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... civil societies along republican lines . John Adams captured the intellectual element of the founder's challenge , when he observed in the conclusion of his pamphlet Thoughts on Government ( reprinted in this collection ) : You and I ...
... civil societies along republican lines . John Adams captured the intellectual element of the founder's challenge , when he observed in the conclusion of his pamphlet Thoughts on Government ( reprinted in this collection ) : You and I ...
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... civil communities ; the second embraces colonial charters and state constitutions ; and the third includes attempts to establish a union of those colonies ( as in the proposed Albany Plan of Union ) , states ( as in the Articles of ...
... civil communities ; the second embraces colonial charters and state constitutions ; and the third includes attempts to establish a union of those colonies ( as in the proposed Albany Plan of Union ) , states ( as in the Articles of ...
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... civil society and of the principles and institutions upon which civil society is best founded . The concise yet illustrative commentaries on American constitutional government pre- sented here are only the tip of the iceberg . In fact ...
... civil society and of the principles and institutions upon which civil society is best founded . The concise yet illustrative commentaries on American constitutional government pre- sented here are only the tip of the iceberg . In fact ...
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... civil community ; the dilution or adaptation of covenantal principles in the second generation of the Puritan empire ; and the meeting of Puritan and Dutch cultures on the eve of the English invasion of New Netherland . By contrast ...
... civil community ; the dilution or adaptation of covenantal principles in the second generation of the Puritan empire ; and the meeting of Puritan and Dutch cultures on the eve of the English invasion of New Netherland . By contrast ...
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