Executing Democracy
Executing Democracy

Author: Stephen J. Hartnett

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1609173457

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This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 1835 and 1843, when pro-death penalty Calvinist minister George Barrell Cheever faced off against abolitionist magazine editor John O’Sullivan. In contrast to the macro-historical overview presented in volume 1, volume 2 provides micro-historical case studies, using these debates as springboards into the discussion of the death penalty in America at large. Incorporating a wide range of sources, including political poems, newspaper editorials, and warring manifestos, this second volume highlights a variety of perspectives, thus demonstrating the centrality of public debates about crime, violence, and punishment to the history of American democracy. Hartnett’s insightful assessment bears witness to a complex national discussion about the political, metaphysical, and cultural significance of the death penalty.

Remarkable Examples of Moral Recovery
Remarkable Examples of Moral Recovery

Author: Abel Stevens

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-19

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780483419650

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Excerpt from Remarkable Examples of Moral Recovery: Showing the Power of Religion in Extreme Cases The following narratives are all facts from real life. They are also What the title of the volume purports, - examples of the grace of God in ex treme cases. The case of the Earl of Roches ter is well known, through the narrative of Bishop Burnet; the other sketches are mostly new in this country. They are all well adapted to their design - namely, the encouragement of penitent sinners, even if among the chief of sinners. A more remarkable instance of moral recovery can hardly be found than that from intemperance here given. 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.