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Author : Carl Lotus Becker
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The United States An Experiment In Democracy written by Carl Lotus Becker and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
Written by a prominent historian, this book offers an insightful analysis of the American political system. Becker explores the origins of democracy in the United States, its strengths and weaknesses, and its potential for the future. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in politics and American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The United States
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Author : Carl Carl Lotus Becker
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2000-10-01
The United States written by Carl Carl Lotus Becker and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-01 with History categories.
According to Carl Becker "if the framers of the Constitution could come back to earth and see what the federal government is doing to-day, they would all agree that this monstrous thing was no child of theirs; for to-day the federal government exercises as a matter of course powers which they never dreamed of." This prescient statement rings as true today as it did when Becker wrote An Experiment in Democracy nearly eighty years ago. This American classic is an engaging, gracefully rendered piece of historical literature as well as a non-ideological meditation on the "meaning of America." Carl Becker's ruminations are invariably provocative, notably wise, and remarkably enduring. He clearly believed in what has been called a "living Constitution," one that must be adapted to changing circumstances and imperatives in America life, and his faith in democracy seems to have strengthened as the decades progressed. In his new introduction, Michael Kammen places this American classic in historical perspective. Kammen sees Becker as more than an archival historian, but rather as a master of the "creative synthesis" looking at familiar sources in fresh ways and developing new points of view that were frequently revisionist and, on occasion, radically arresting. Much has changed between 1920 and the present; but Carl Becker's sagacity persists, just as his expository prose will continue to please a new generation of historians and students of American social history. Carl Becker was the author of "Kansas"; The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas; Modern History: The Rise of a Democratic, Scientific, and Industrial Civilization; "Benjamin Franklin"; "Everyman His Own Historian"; The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers; How New Will the Better World Be?; and Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life. MichaelG. Kammen is professor of American History and Culture at Cornell University. He is the author of numerous books in the field including Selvages and Biases: The Fabric of History in American Culture; Politics and Society on Colonial America; and Constitutional Pluralism: Conflicting Interpretations of the Founders' Intentions.
The United States
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Author : Carl Becker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-17
The United States written by Carl Becker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with History categories.
According to Carl Becker "if the framers of the Constitution could come back to earth and see what the federal government is doing to-day, they would all agree that this monstrous thing was no child of theirs; for to-day the federal government exercises as a matter of course powers which they never dreamed of." This prescient statement rings as true today as it did when Becker wrote An Experiment in Democracy nearly eighty years ago. This American classic is an engaging, gracefully rendered piece of historical literature as well as a non-ideological meditation on the "meaning of America." Carl Becker's ruminations are invariably provocative, notably wise, and remarkably enduring. He clearly believed in what has been called a "living Constitution," one that must be adapted to changing circumstances and imperatives in America life, and his faith in democracy seems to have strengthened as the decades progressed. In his new introduction, Michael Kammen places this American classic in historical perspective. Kammen sees Becker as more than an archival historian, but rather as a master of the "creative synthesis" looking at familiar sources in fresh ways and developing new points of view that were frequently revisionist and, on occasion, radically arresting. Much has changed between 1920 and the present; but Carl Becker's sagacity persists, just as his expository prose will continue to please a new generation of historians and students of American social history. Carl Becker was the author of "Kansas"; The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas; Modern History: The Rise of a Democratic, Scientific, and Industrial Civilization; "Benjamin Franklin"; "Everyman His Own Historian"; The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers; How New Will the Better World Be?; and Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life.
The United States An Experiment In Democracy
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Author : Carl Lotus Becker
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01
The United States An Experiment In Democracy written by Carl Lotus Becker and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01 with categories.
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Experiments In Democracy
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Author : Benjamin J. Hurlbut
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-31
Experiments In Democracy written by Benjamin J. Hurlbut and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-31 with Medical categories.
Human embryo research touches upon strongly felt moral convictions, and it raises such deep questions about the promise and perils of scientific progress that debate over its development has become a moral and political imperative. From in vitro fertilization to embryonic stem cell research, cloning, and gene editing, Americans have repeatedly struggled with how to define the moral status of the human embryo, whether to limit its experimental uses, and how to contend with sharply divided public moral perspectives on governing science. Experiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their crucial role in shaping norms, practices, and institutions of deliberation governing the ethical challenges of modern bioscience. J. Benjamin Hurlbut details how scientists, bioethicists, policymakers, and other public figures have attempted to answer a question of great consequence: how should the public reason about aspects of science and technology that effect fundamental dimensions of human life? Through a study of one of the most significant science policy controversies in the history of the United States, Experiments in Democracy paints a portrait of the complex relationship between science and democracy, and of U.S. society's evolving approaches to evaluating and governing science's most challenging breakthroughs.
Our Great Experiment In Democracy
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Author : Carl Becker
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-24
Our Great Experiment In Democracy written by Carl Becker and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-24 with Political Science categories.
Excerpt from Our Great Experiment in Democracy: A History of the United States The work is clearly not a "history" of the United States in the ordinary sense of that much used and abused word, but rather a series of essays on certain important problems which have confronted the American people from colonial days to the present. It was written in the fall of 1918, and my chief purpose in writing it was to inject a small question mark after the assumption (more common then perhaps than now, but still often enough made) that there attaches to American institutions in general, and to the American form of government in particular, some sacred and sacrosanct quality of the changeless Absolute. I wished only to suggest, very mildly (and there is perhaps still some point in doing so), that American "democracy" was, and is, an experiment: originally an experiment in the sense that it was then relatively a new thing in the world; still an experiment in the sense that the profound economic changes of the last century are straining to the breaking point all political institutions derived from an earlier age. But for the matter of that, what is any human institution, what has it ever been, what can it ever be, but an experiment? An experimental device in humanity's great adventure in search of the good life? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Our Great Experiment In Democracy
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Author : Carl Lotus Becker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
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The United States
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Author : Thomas Hobbes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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Release Date : 1962
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Our Great Experiment In Democracy
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Author : Carl Lotus Becker
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2013-11
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