Speaking of Liberty
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Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 1610163370
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Author:
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 1610163370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Bona
Publisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1424552907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNews reports bring to our ears daily stories of further intrusion in our lives and increased regulations too many to number. America is losing its heritage of God-given freedoms, which were originally derived from biblical teaching. We sense that our well-sung liberties are being lost to a point of no return. The Liberty Book examines the Christian roots of liberty, idolatry, taxation, foundations for freedom, the right to bear arms, the great freedom documents in history, pro-life and liberty, land rights, social involvement, and more. With God’s help freedom can be revived. We must all work to pull America back from the cliffs-edge fall into tyranny. Our nation is again in search of genuine liberty under God. Discover what Bible-based liberty looks like and how it can be won for you and your children.
Author: Cokie Roberts
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 0061737216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this eye-opening companion volume to her acclaimed history Founding Mothers, number-one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Recounted with insight and humor, and drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources, many of them previously unpublished, here are the fascinating and inspiring true stories of first ladies and freethinkers, educators and explorers. Featuring an exceptional group of women—including Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, Rebecca Gratz, Louise Livingston, Sacagawea, and others—Ladies of Liberty sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation, finally giving these extraordinary ladies the recognition they so greatly deserve.
Author: Donald Alexander Downs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-10-16
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521689717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with the decline of respect for free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty that has swept higher education in America over the last decade and a half and with what needs to be done to reverse this trend. Drawing on personal experience as well as research, Downs analyzes the origins and development of the problem, and shows how political organization of students and faculty can lead to constructive change. He presents four case studies that illustrate this thesis.
Author: C. Edwin Baker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0195079027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBaker here evaluates the prevalent justifications for freedom of speech and formulates a liberty theory, which he applies to contemporary free speech cases as a means of suggesting possible reforms to free speech doctrine.
Author: John Phillip Reid
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780226708966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Liberty was the most cherished right possessed by English-speaking people in the eighteenth century. It was both an ideal for the guidance of governors and a standard with which to measure the constitutionality of government; both a cause of the American Revolution and a purpose for drafting the United States Constitution; both an inheritance from Great Britain and a reason republican common lawyers continued to study the law of England." As John Philip Reid goes on to make clear, "liberty" did not mean to the eighteenth-century mind what it means today. In the twentieth century, we take for granted certain rights—such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press—with which the state is forbidden to interfere. To the revolutionary generation, liberty was preserved by curbing its excesses. The concept of liberty taught not what the individual was free to do but what the rule of law permitted. Ultimately, liberty was law—the rule of law and the legalism of custom. The British constitution was the charter of liberty because it provided for the rule of law. Drawing on an impressive command of the original materials, Reid traces the eighteenth-century notion of liberty to its source in the English common law. He goes on to show how previously problematic arguments involving the related concepts of licentiousness, slavery, arbitrary power, and property can also be fit into the common-law tradition. Throughout, he focuses on what liberty meant to the people who commented on and attempted to influence public affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. He shows the depth of pride in liberty—English liberty—that pervaded the age, and he also shows the extent—unmatched in any other era or among any other people—to which liberty both guided and motivated political and constitutional action.
Author: Randy E. Barnett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998-04-02
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 019152204X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this provocative and engaging new book, Randy Barnett outlines a powerful and original theory of liberty structured by the liberal conception of justice and the rule of law. Drawing on insights from philosophy, political theory, economics, and law, he shows how this new conception of liberty can confront, and solve, the central societal problems of knowledge, interest, and power. - ;What is liberty, as opposed to license, and why is it so important? When people pursue happiness, peace, and prosperity whilst living in society, they confront pervasive problems of knowledge, interest, and power. These problems are dealt with by ensuring the liberty of the people to pursue their own ends, but addressing these problems also requires that liberty be structured by certain rights and procedures associated with the classical liberal conception of justice and the rule of law. In this controversial new work, Barnett examines the serious social problems that are addressed by liberty and the background or `natural' rights and `rule of law' procedures that distinguish liberty from license. He goes on to outline the constitutional framework that is needed to protect this structure of liberty. This is the only discussion of the liberal conception of justice and the rule of law to draw upon insights from philosophy, economics, political theory, and law to describe comprehensively the vital social functions performed by adherence to these concepts. And, although the book is intended to challenge specialists, its clear and accessible prose ensure that it will be of immense value to both scholars and students working in a range of academic disciplines. -
Author: J. C. D. Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780521449571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book creates a new framework for the political and intellectual relations between the British Isles and America in a momentous period which witnessed the formation of modern states on both sides of the Atlantic and the extinction of an Anglican, aristocratic and monarchical order. Jonathan Clark integrates evidence from law and religion to reveal how the dynamics of early modern societies were essentially denominational. In a study of British and American discourse, he shows how rival conceptions of liberty were expressed in the conflicts created by Protestant dissent's hostility to an Anglican hegemony. The book argues that this model provides a key to collective acts of resistance to the established order throughout the period. The book's final section focuses on the defining episode for British and American history, and shows the way in which the American Revolution can be understood as a war of religion.
Author: Thomas Blackwell
Publisher:
Published: 2018-06-27
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780692056790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClem walked to the corner of the room and picked up a wooden box. From inside the box, he pulled out an old, worn-out book. Stuffed in the back of the binding were several pieces of paper filled with hand-written notes. He pulled out the notes and handed me the book. The book appeared to have been sitting in that box for many years. The title was carved into the dried-up leather cover by some sort of nail or perhaps a knife. I read the title: The Liberty of Our Language Revealed. "You ever heard of it before?" Clem inquired. "No, I haven't," I answered, opening its dusty pages. "Wait, these pages are blank, and there is no author!" I declared, as I flipped back to the front cover to see if any name was written. Clem paused and made eye contact with me, "You are the author, Thomas; you are the author of The Liberty of Our Language Revealed."On the walls of the abandoned escape route someone had etched several phrases. I studied each one. "Change your language, change your life." "Improve your results, create a better environment." "Increase your productivity, transform your economy." "Elevate your performance, and achieve higher standards."
Author: Chris Berg
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781921421570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDozens of Australia's best thinkers, writers and commentators reassess the books that provide the foundation for liberty and democracy in Australia and around the world. From Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and everything in between, Australian freedom has been influenced by - and influenced - the greatest ideas from around the world. of interest to students of liberty and political pundits alike, 100 Great Books of Freedom also brings out the neglected Australia legacy of liberty, identifying the 19th and 20th century classics by Bruce Smith, Keith Hancock, CD Kemp, WE Hearn and many, many others. With contributions from some of Australia's leading liberal, conservative and libertarian writers, including Michael Duffy, John Roskam, Wolfgang Kasper, Sam Gregg, John Hyde, Andrew Norton, Suri Ratnapala, John Nethercote, David Kemp, Peter Saunders, and dozens more, 100 Great Books of Freedom is not just a guide to the world's best thinking about liberty, but is a clear picture of intellectual life in Australia in the first decade of the 21st century. While governments and politicians around the world are spending, regulating and restricting individual liberty at an unprecedented pace, The 100 Great Books of Freedom is an essential addition to Australia's liberal identity. 100 Great Books of Freedom is a joint project of the Institute of Public Affairs and Mannkal Economic Education Foundation.