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Author : John Adams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Thoughts on Government: Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313003637
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The New England Town Meeting written by Joseph F. Zimmerman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, Zimmerman explores the town meeting form of government in all New England states. This comprehensive work relies heavily upon surveys of town officers and citizens, interviews, and mastery of the scattered writing on the subject. Zimmerman finds that the stereotypes of the New England open town meeting advanced by its critics are a serious distortion of reality. He shows that voter superintendence of town affairs has proven to be effective, and there is no empirical evidence that thousands of small towns and cities with elected councils are governed better. Whereas the relatively small voter attendance suggests that interest groups can control town meetings, their influence has been offset effectively by the development of town advisory committees, particularly the finance committee and the planning board, which are effective counterbalances to pressure groups. Zimmerman provides a new conception of town meeting democracy, positing that the meeting is a de facto representative legislative body with two safety valves—open access to all voters and the initiative to add articles to the warrant, and the calling of special meetings to reconsider decisions made at the preceding town meeting. And, as Zimmerman points out, a third safety valve—the protest referendum—can be adopted by a town meeting.
Author : Perry MILLER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041046
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The New England Mind written by Perry MILLER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, as well as its predecessor The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.
Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
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Total Pages : 118 pages
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Download or read book The Struggle Over the Adoption of the Constitution of Massachusetts, 1780 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Horst Dippel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3598440650
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Massachusetts – New Hampshire written by Horst Dippel and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Massachusetts – New Hampshire".
Author : Ernestine Giesecke
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 9781432927127
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (271 download)
Download or read book State Government written by Ernestine Giesecke and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the purpose and function of state government, the function of the three branches, how states raise money, how state government operates. and how a bill becomes a state law.
Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
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Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society written by Massachusetts Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557094640
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book A Key Into the Language of America written by Roger Williams and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.
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Author : Bowdoin College (BRUNSWICK, Me.). Library
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Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of Bowdoin College; to which is Added, an Index of Subjects. [Edited by W. P. Tucker.] written by Bowdoin College (BRUNSWICK, Me.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Stourzh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226776387
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book From Vienna to Chicago and Back written by Gerald Stourzh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald Stourzh’s sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his career—from Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria. This storied career brought him in the 1950s from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago—of which he draws a brilliant picture—and later took him to Berlin and eventually back to Austria. One of the few prominent scholars equally at home with U.S. history and the history of central Europe, Stourzh has informed these geographically diverse experiences and subjects with the overarching themes of his scholarly achievement: the comparative study of liberal constitutionalism and the struggle for equal rights at the core of Western notions of free government. Composed between 1953 and 2005 and including a new autobiographical essay written especially for this volume, From Vienna to Chicago and Back will delight Stourzh fans, attract new admirers, and make an important contribution to transatlantic history.
Author : John P. Reid
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027103825X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book In a Defiant Stance written by John P. Reid and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The minimum of violence accompanying the success of the American Revolution resulted in large part, argues this book, from the conditions of law the British allowed in the American colonies. By contrast, Ireland's struggle for independence was prolonged, bloody, and bitter largely because of the repressive conditions of law imposed by Britain. Examining the most rebellious American colony, Massachusetts Bay, Professor Reid finds that law was locally controlled while imperial law was almost nonexistent as an influence on the daily lives of individuals. In Ireland the same English common law, because of imperial control of legal machinery, produced an opposite result. The Irish were forced to resort to secret, underground violence. The author examines various Massachusetts Bay institutions to show the consequences of whig party control, in contrast to the situation in 18th-century Ireland. A general conclusion is that law, the conditions of positive law, and the matter of who controls the law may have more significant effects on the course of events than is generally assumed.
Author : Bowdoin college
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Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A catalogue of the library of Bowdoin college; to which is added, an index of subjects written by Bowdoin college and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382142546
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)
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Author : C. Bradley Thompson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700611819
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty written by C. Bradley Thompson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1998-11-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's finest eighteenth-century student of political science, John Adams is also the least studied of the Revolution's key figures. By the time he became our second president, no American had written more about our government and not even Jefferson or Madison had read as widely about questions of human nature, natural right, political organization, and constitutional construction. Yet this staunch constitutionalist is perceived by many as having become reactionary in his later years and his ideas have been largely disregarded. In the first major work on Adams's political thought in over thirty years, C. Bradley Thompson takes issue with the notion that Adams's thought is irrelevant to the development of American ideas. Focusing on Adams's major writings, Thompson elucidates and reevaluates his political and constitutional thought by interpreting it within the tradition of political philosophy stretching from Plato to Montesquieu. This major revisionist study shows that the distinction Adams drew between "principles of liberty" and "principles of political architecture" is central to his entire political philosophy. Thompson first chronicles Adams's conceptualization of moral and political liberty during his confrontation with American Loyalists and British imperial officers over the true nature of justice and the British Constitution, illuminating Adams's two most important pre-Revolutionary essays, "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law" and "The Letters of Novanglus." He then presents Adams's debate with French philosophers over the best form of government and provides an extended analysis of his Defence of the Constitutions of Government and Discourses on Davila to demonstrate his theory of political architecture. From these pages emerges a new John Adams. In reexamining his political thought, Thompson reconstructs the contours and influences of Adams's mental universe, the ideas he challenged, the problems he considered central to constitution-making, and the methods of his reasoning. Skillfully blending history and political science, Thompson's work shows how the spirit of liberty animated Adams's life and reestablishes this forgotten Revolutionary as an independent and important thinker.
Author : Donald S. Lutz
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Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Colonial Origins of the American Constitution written by Donald S. Lutz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 80 documents selected to reflect Eric Voegelin's theory that in Western civilization basic political symbolizations tend to be variants of the original symbolization of Judeo-Christian religious tradition. These documents demonstrate the continuity of symbols preceding the writing of the Constitution and all contain a number of basic symbols such as: a constitution as higher law, popular sovereignty, legislative supremacy, the deliberative process, and a virtuous people. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368151681
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Manual for the Use of the General Court written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original.
Author : Goodwin Liu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199752834
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Keeping Faith with the Constitution written by Goodwin Liu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been challenged by proponents of originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed and applied as it was when the Framers wrote it. In Keeping Faith with the Constitution, three legal authorities make the case for Marshall's vision. They describe their approach as "constitutional fidelity"--not to how the Framers would have applied the Constitution, but to the text and principles of the Constitution itself. The original understanding of the text is one source of interpretation, but not the only one; to preserve the meaning and authority of the document, to keep it vital, applications of the Constitution must be shaped by precedent, historical experience, practical consequence, and societal change. The authors range across the history of constitutional interpretation to show how this approach has been the source of our greatest advances, from Brown v. Board of Education to the New Deal, from the Miranda decision to the expansion of women's rights. They delve into the complexities of voting rights, the malapportionment of legislative districts, speech freedoms, civil liberties and the War on Terror, and the evolution of checks and balances. The Constitution's framers could never have imagined DNA, global warming, or even women's equality. Yet these and many more realities shape our lives and outlook. Our Constitution will remain vital into our changing future, the authors write, if judges remain true to this rich tradition of adaptation and fidelity.
