Consensus And Continuity 1776 1787
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Consensus And Continuity 1776 1787
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Author : Benjamin Fletcher Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Consensus And Continuity 1776 1787 written by Benjamin Fletcher Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Constitutional history categories.
Consensus And Continuity 1776 1787
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Author : Benjamin Wright Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Consensus And Continuity 1776 1787 written by Benjamin Wright Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with United States categories.
Consensus And Continuity 1776 1787
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Author : Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Consensus And Continuity 1776 1787 written by Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
Consensus And Continuity 1776 1787 By Benjamin Fletcher Wright
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Author : Benjamin F. Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Consensus And Continuity 1776 1787 By Benjamin Fletcher Wright written by Benjamin F. Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with categories.
American Constitutionalism Heard Round The World 1776 1989
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Author : George Athan Billias
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2009-08
American Constitutionalism Heard Round The World 1776 1989 written by George Athan Billias and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08 with History categories.
George Athan Billias traces the spread of American constitutionalism, from the time of the American Revolution to the conclusion of the Cold War.
Interpretations Of American History Vol I
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Author : Francis G. Couvares
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2000-07
Interpretations Of American History Vol I written by Francis G. Couvares and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07 with History categories.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, no area of study is outdated more quickly than history, and no time has been more turbulent for the discipline than our own. This classic point/counterpoint reader in American history, now in a completely revised and updated seventh edition, takes note of history's impermanence, giving voice to the new without disposing of the old. In ten lively chapters, essays by the editors introduce dialectical readings by distinguished historians on topics from Reconstruction to the present. The essays and readings address history's timeless questions: "Reconstruction: Change or Stasis?," "American Imperialism: Economic Expansion or Ideological Crusade?," and "The Civil Rights Movement: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?" New readings are included on African Americans, women, and immigrants. In the fray of debate, eminent historians from Samuel Hays and Alfred Chandler to John Lewis Gaddis, Walter LaFeber, and Kathryn Kish Sklar struggle to interpret the past. The editors'essays moderate.
The Constitutional Convention Of 1787 2 Volumes
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Author : John R. Vile
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2005-06-24
The Constitutional Convention Of 1787 2 Volumes written by John R. Vile and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-24 with Law categories.
The first encyclopedic treatment of the personalities, politics, and events involved in drafting the U.S. Constitution. This comprehensive treatment of all the personalities, philosophies, debates, and compromises involved in drafting the U.S. Constitution is the first encyclopedic work on the subject, compiling information into an easily accessible A–Z format. Biographies of all 55 delegates, analysis of the competing political viewpoints, procedural and substantive disputes, along with a host of other details are all presented here. Both the detail and the scholarship in this book are unmatched in any other work; the encyclopedic presentation simply does not exist elsewhere. Civil liberties, the scope of authority of the three branches of government, and other constitutional matters are increasingly at the forefront of public discussion. Scholars, citizens interested in self-education, and reference librarians faced with questions about the Constitution will find in this book all they require to answer their needs.
The Challenges To Democracy
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Author : Murray Clark Havens
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-07-03
The Challenges To Democracy written by Murray Clark Havens and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-03 with Political Science categories.
Threats to American unity are not unique to modern times. In the 1960s, the assassination of President Kennedy, the tension of racial strife, the political extremes of the Radical Right with its John Birchers and the Radical Left with its threat of Communism all raised critically urgent questions relative to our national unity, to our political stability, and to our vaunted respect for the rule of law. The Challenges to Democracy is an assessment of the foundations of political unity in the United States. The American consensus, as Murray Clark Havens defines it, emphasizes a set of values and procedures that most Americans, since the adoption of the Constitution, have accepted in principle: religious tolerance, individual freedom in intellectual and cultural matters, the importance of education and intellectual effort, settlement of internal conflict through peaceful and political processes, the supremacy of law, a high and generally rising standard of living, and, since the Civil War, racial compatibility. Never in our history have the ideals of this consensus been fully achieved, but as long as the majority of our citizens accept the validity of those ideals and the democratic procedures for realizing them, the basic American political unity is not threatened. However, when citizens who cannot accept the elements of the American consensus become influential enough to block the democratic process, then that consensus is threatened. Havens shows how such threats have come to us all through our history—the Civil War, racial and religious bigotry, the Ku Klux Klan, Huey Long, Father Coughlin and other extremists of the desperate thirties, McCarthyism. He discusses contemporary dangers to American unity such as those connected with the acceptance of the African American, religious friction in politics and government, the Radical Right and the Radical Left, and our foreign policy as an expression of the American consensus. The broad conclusions of this study are that our national unity is continuously in jeopardy, with frequent recurrences of serious questions as to the permanence of some of the patterns we have always associated with American government, but that our democracy is possessed of considerable potential for survival because of our deep national commitment to democracy and because of our even deeper nationalism.
Judicial Dictatorship
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Author : William J. Quirk
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Judicial Dictatorship written by William J. Quirk and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Social Science categories.
American society has undergone a revolution within a revolution. Until the 1960s, America was a liberal country in the traditional sense of legislative and executive checks and balances. Since then, the Supreme Court has taken on the role of the protector of individual rights against the will of the majority by creating, in a series of decisions, new rights for criminal defendants, atheists, homosexuals, illegal aliens, and others. Repeatedly, on a variety of cases, the Court has overturned the actions of local police or state laws under which local officials are acting. The result, according to Quirk and Birdwell, is freedom for the lawless and oppression for the law abiding. 'Judicial Dictatorship' challenges the status quo, arguing that in many respects the Supreme Court has assumed authority far beyond the original intent of the Founding Fathers. In order to avoid abuse of power, the three branches of the American government were designed to operate under a system of checks and balances. However, this balance has been upset. The Supreme Court has become the ultimate arbiter in the legal system through exercise of the doctrine of judicial review, which allows the court to invalidate any state or federal law it considers inconsistent with the constitution. Supporters of judicial review believe that there has to be a final arbiter of constitutional interpretation, and the Judiciary is the most suitable choice. Opponents, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln among them, believed that judicial review assumes the judicial branch is above the other branches, a result the Constitution did not intend. The democratic paradox is that the majority in America agreed to limit its own power. Jefferson believed that the will of the majority must always prevail. His faith in the common man led him to advocate a weak national government, one that derived its power from the people. Alexander Hamilton, often Jefferson's adversary, lacking such faith, feared "the amazing violence an
New Democracy
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Author : William J. Novak
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-29
New Democracy written by William J. Novak and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-29 with Law categories.
The activist state of the New Deal started forming decades before the FDR administration, demonstrating the deep roots of energetic government in America. In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed, with momentous implications for social and economic life. A series of legal reforms gradually brought an end to nineteenth-century traditions of local self-government and associative citizenship, replacing them with positive statecraft: governmental activism intended to change how Americans lived and worked through legislation, regulation, and public administration. The last time American public life had been so thoroughly altered was in the late eighteenth century, at the founding and in the years immediately following. William J. Novak shows how Americans translated new conceptions of citizenship, social welfare, and economic democracy into demands for law and policy that delivered public services and vindicated peopleÕs rights. Over the course of decades, Americans progressively discarded earlier understandings of the reach and responsibilities of government and embraced the idea that legislators and administrators in Washington could tackle economic regulation and social-welfare problems. As citizens witnessed the successes of an energetic, interventionist state, they demanded more of the same, calling on politicians and civil servants to address unfair competition and labor exploitation, form public utilities, and reform police power. Arguing against the myth that America was a weak state until the New Deal, New Democracy traces a steadily aggrandizing authority well before the Roosevelt years. The United States was flexing power domestically and intervening on behalf of redistributive goals for far longer than is commonly recognized, putting the lie to libertarian claims that the New Deal was an aberration in American history.