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Author: Scott J. Hammond
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 1236
ISBN-13: 9780872207875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom James I's Address Before Parliament (1610) to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.'s Learned Hand Dinner Address Before the American Jewish Committee (2005), this two-volume set offers an unparalleled selection of key texts from the history of American political and constitutional thought.
Author: Scott J. Hammond
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2017-03-15
Total Pages: 1228
ISBN-13: 1624669220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 1 of a 2-volume set. Volume 1 covers origins through the Civil War. Volume 2 covers reconstruction to the present. Together the two-volume set offers an unparalleled selection of key texts from the history of American political and constitutional thought. North American rights only.
Author: Scott J. Hammond
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 1232
ISBN-13: 9780872208834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom James I's Address Before Parliament (1610) to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.'s Learned Hand Dinner Address Before the American Jewish Committee (2005), this two-volume set offers an unparalleled selection of key texts from the history of American political and constitutional thought.
Author: Scott J. Hammond
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 964
ISBN-13: 9780872208865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the 'Third Charter of Virginia' (1611) to George W Bush's 'Second Inaugural Address' (2005), this work offers a selection of key texts designed for use in undergraduate courses on American political and constitutional thought.
Author: Raymond Garfield Gettell
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 648
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bryan-Paul Frost
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-01-08
Total Pages: 963
ISBN-13: 1498558704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America. This new second edition of the book includes chapters on several additional historical figures, including Walt Whitman, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Ronald Reagan, as well as a new chapter on Barack Obama, who was not prominent in public life when the first edition was published. Significant revisions and additions have also been made to many of the original chapters, most notably on Antonin Scalia, which now updates his full legacy, increasing the breadth and depth of the collection.
Author: James Davids
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-10-19
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1498570607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrasting two Protestant justices who hold distinctively different worldviews, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Harry A. Blackmun, this book explores how each came to hold his worldview, how each applied it in Supreme Court rulings, and how it led them to differing outcomes for liberty, equality, and justice. This clash of worldviews between Rehnquist, whose religious and philosophical influences were anchored in the Reformation, and Blackmun, whose Reformation theology was modified by Enlightenment philosophy, provide the context to examine the true nature of justice, liberty, and equality and to consider how such ideals can be maintained in a society with increasingly divergent worldviews.
Author: George W. Carey
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho are the most influential thinkers, and which are the most important concepts, events, and documents in the study of the American political tradition? How ought we regard the beliefs and motivations of the founders, the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the historical circumstances of the Declaration of Independence, the rise of the modern presidency, and the advent of judicial supremacy? These are a few of the fascinating questions canvassed by George W. Carey in A Student's Guide to American Political Thought. Carey's primer instructs students on the fundamental matters of American political theory while telling them where to turn to obtain a better grasp on the ideas that have shaped the American political heritage.
Author: Michael Nelson
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 1544317328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by top-notch presidency scholars and carefully edited into a text-reader format, The Presidency and the Political System, Eleventh Edition showcases a collection of original essays focused on a range of topics, institutions, and issues relevant to understanding the American presidency.
Author: Dennis Hale
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2024-04-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0700636234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKeeping the Republic is an eloquent defense of the American constitutional order and a response to its critics, including those who are estranged from the very idea of a fixed constitution in which “the living are governed by the dead.” Dennis Hale and Marc Landy take seriously the criticisms of the United States Constitution. Before mounting their argument, they present an intellectual history of the key critics, including Thomas Paine, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry David Thoreau, Woodrow Wilson, Robert Dahl, Sanford Levinson, and the authors of The 1619 Project. Why, they ask, if the constitutional order is so well designed, do so many American citizens have a negative view of the American political order? To address that question, they examine the most crucial episodes in American political development from the Founding to the present. Hale and Landy frame their defense of the Constitution by understanding America in terms of modernity, where small republics are no longer possible and there is a need to protect the citizens of a massive modern state while still preserving liberty. The Constitution makes large, popular government possible by placing effective limits on the exercise of power. The Constitution forces the people to be governed by the dead, both to pay the debt we owe to those who came before us and to preserve society for generations yet unborn. The central argument of Keeping the Republic is that the Constitution provides for a free government because it places effective limits on the exercise of power—an essential ingredient of any good government, even one that aims to be a popular government. That the people should rule is a given among republicans; that the people can do anything they want is a proposition that no one could accept with their eyes wide open. Thus, the limits that the Constitution places on American political life are not a problem, but a solution to a problem. Hale and Landy offer both a survey of American anti-constitutionalism and a powerful argument for maintaining the constitutional order of the nation’s Framers.
