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Book Synopsis Our Secret Constitution by : George P. Fletcher
Download or read book Our Secret Constitution written by George P. Fletcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans hate and distrust their government. At the same time, Americans love and trust their government. These contradictory attitudes are resolved by Fletcher's novel interpretation of constitutional history. He argues that we have two constitutions--still living side by side--one that caters to freedom and fear, the other that satisfied our needs for security and social justice. The first constitution came into force in 1789. It stresses freedom, voluntary association, and republican elitism. The second constitution begins with the Gettysburg Address and emphasizes equality, organic nationhood, and popular democracy. These radical differences between our two constitutions explain our ambivalence and self-contradictory attitudes toward government. With September 11 the second constitution--which Fletcher calls the Secret Constitution--has become ascendant. When America is under threat, the nation cultivates its solidarity. It overcomes its fear and looks to government for protection and the pursuit of social justice. Lincoln's messages of a strong government and a nation that must "long endure" have never been more relevant to American politics. "Fletcher's argument has intriguing implications beyond the sweeping subject of this profoundly thought-provoking book."--The Denver Post
Book Synopsis The Democracy of Abraham Lincoln by : Henry Cabot Lodge
Download or read book The Democracy of Abraham Lincoln written by Henry Cabot Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Government by : Bartow Adolphus Ulrich
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Government written by Bartow Adolphus Ulrich and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Broken Constitution by : Noah Feldman
Download or read book The Broken Constitution written by Noah Feldman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution—a system he regarded as the “last best hope of mankind.” But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution? In this groundbreaking study, Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements. When he came to power, it was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed force to prevent a state from seceding. It was also assumed that basic civil liberties could be suspended in a rebellion by Congress but not by the president, and that the federal government had no authority over slavery in states where it existed. As president, Lincoln broke decisively with all these precedents, and effectively rewrote the Constitution’s place in the American system. Before the Civil War, the Constitution was best understood as a compromise pact—a rough and ready deal between states that allowed the Union to form and function. After Lincoln, the Constitution came to be seen as a sacred text—a transcendent statement of the nation’s highest ideals. The Broken Constitution is the first book to tell the story of how Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to remake it. To do so, it offers a riveting narrative of his constitutional choices and how he made them—and places Lincoln in the rich context of thinking of the time, from African American abolitionists to Lincoln’s Republican rivals and Secessionist ideologues. Includes 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations
Book Synopsis The Democracy of the Constitution by : Henry Cabot Lodge
Download or read book The Democracy of the Constitution written by Henry Cabot Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lincoln on Democracy by : Abraham Lincoln
Download or read book Lincoln on Democracy written by Abraham Lincoln and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover: His own words, with essays by America's foremost Civil War historians.
Book Synopsis The democracy of the Constitution, and others addresses and essays by : Henry Cabot Lodge
Download or read book The democracy of the Constitution, and others addresses and essays written by Henry Cabot Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Our Secret Constitution by : George P. Fletcher
Download or read book Our Secret Constitution written by George P. Fletcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans hate and distrust their government. At the same time, Americans love and trust their government. These contradictory attitudes are resolved by Fletcher's novel interpretation of constitutional history. He argues that we have two constitutions--still living side by side--one that caters to freedom and fear, the other that satisfied our needs for security and social justice. The first constitution came into force in 1789. It stresses freedom, voluntary association, and republican elitism. The second constitution begins with the Gettysburg Address and emphasizes equality, organic nationhood, and popular democracy. These radical differences between our two constitutions explain our ambivalence and self-contradictory attitudes toward government. With September 11 the second constitution--which Fletcher calls the Secret Constitution--has become ascendant. When America is under threat, the nation cultivates its solidarity. It overcomes its fear and looks to government for protection and the pursuit of social justice. Lincoln's messages of a strong government and a nation that must "long endure" have never been more relevant to American politics. "Fletcher's argument has intriguing implications beyond the sweeping subject of this profoundly thought-provoking book."--The Denver Post
Book Synopsis Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln by : James Garfield Randall
Download or read book Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln written by James Garfield Randall and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abraham Lincoln by : George Anastaplo
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by George Anastaplo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned scholar George Anastaplo describes a side of Abraham Lincoln that previous biographers have overlooked: the development and legacy of his legal and constitutional thought.
Book Synopsis Lincoln and Democratic Statesmanship by : Michael P. Zuckert
Download or read book Lincoln and Democratic Statesmanship written by Michael P. Zuckert and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our ideas of statesmanship are fraught with seeming contradictions: The democratic statesman is true to the people’s wishes and views—but also capable of standing against popular opinion when necessary. The statesman rises above conflicts and seeks compromise between parties—but also stands firmly for what is right. Abraham Lincoln, perhaps more than any other political figure in US history, affords us an opportunity to evaluate the philosophical, political, and practical implications of these paradoxical propositions. Asking whether and how Lincoln acted in a statesmanly manner at critical moments, the authors of this volume aim to clarify what precisely statesmanship might be; their work illuminates important themes and events in Lincoln’s career even as it broadens and sharpens our understanding of the general nature of statesmanship. One of Lincoln’s abiding themes was foreshadowed in his Lyceum Address, delivered when he was not yet thirty: the call for the prevalence of a sort of public opinion that he characterized as a political religion. As it relates to democratic statesmanship, what does Lincoln’s political religion have to do with religion per se? How, in his role as statesman as a master of democratic speech, did Lincoln handle the two major issues he faced as a political leader: slavery and the war? In attempting to meet the demand that he use acceptable means to achieve his ends, did Lincoln—can any statesman—keep his hands clean? Are there inevitable transgressions that a statesman must commit? These are among the topics the authors take on as they consider Lincoln’s democratic and rhetorical statesmanship, on occasion drawing comparisons with his contemporaries Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas or even such a distant forerunner as Pericles. Finally, framing statesmanship in terms of three factors—knowledge of the political good of a community, circumstance, and the best possible action in light of these two—this volume renders a nuanced, deeply informed judgment on what distinguishes Lincoln as a statesman, and what distinguishes a statesman from a (mere) politician.
Book Synopsis The Democracy of Abraham Lincoln by : Henry Cabot Lodge
Download or read book The Democracy of Abraham Lincoln written by Henry Cabot Lodge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Democracy of Abraham Lincoln: Address by Henry Cabot Lodge Before the Students of Boston University School of Law on March 14, 1913 The men who object to what they style government by injunction are, as regards the essential principles of government, in hearty sympathy with their remote skin clad ancestors, who lived in caves, fought one another with stone-headed axes, and ate the mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. They are interesting as representing a geological survival, but they are dangerous whenever there is the least chance of their making the principles of this ages-buried past living factors in our presentlife. They are not in sympathy with men of good minds and sound civic morality. Furthermore, the Chicago convention attacked the Supreme Court. Again, this represents a species of atavism - that is, of recurrence to the ways of thought of remote barbarian ancestors. Savages do not like an independent and upright judiciary. They want. The judge to decide their way, and if he does not they want to behead him. The Populist-s experience much the same emotions when they realize that the judi ciary stands between them and plunder. Let us now examine what Lincoln said or wrote and try to deter mine whether he stood for the new or the old, for self-limited or for direct and unlimited democracy with especial reference to the two points of government by representation and judicial independ ence. On one most memorable occasion Lincoln told the world what the Government was for which the people whom he led were pouring out their treasure and offering up their lives. I will not use my own words to describe what he then said but those of an impartial English historian. 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.
Book Synopsis Lincoln, the Constitution, and Democracy by : Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin
Download or read book Lincoln, the Constitution, and Democracy written by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An address delivered before the annual meeting of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Springfield, Illinois, February 12, 1936"--Page 1.
Book Synopsis Lincoln and the Democrats by : Mark E. Neely
Download or read book Lincoln and the Democrats written by Mark E. Neely and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the behavior of a two-party system during war - emphasizing the Democrats' role in the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Biographical Story of the Constitution by : Edward Elliott
Download or read book Biographical Story of the Constitution written by Edward Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Constitutions of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis by : Russell Hoover Quynn
Download or read book The Constitutions of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis written by Russell Hoover Quynn and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An earlier version of part three of this book was issued separately in 1956 under the title: A comparative study of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
Book Synopsis A Nation So Conceived by : Michael P. Zuckert
Download or read book A Nation So Conceived written by Michael P. Zuckert and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln’s political thought, Michael P. Zuckert’s A Nation So Conceived argues for a coherent center to Lincoln’s political ideology, a core idea that unifies his thought and thus illuminates his deeds as a political actor. That core idea is captured in the term “democratic sovereignty.” Zuckert provides invaluable guidance to understanding both Lincoln and the politics of the United States between 185 and Lincoln’s death in 1865 by focusing on roughly a dozen speeches that Lincoln made during his career. This reader-friendly chronological organization is motivated by Zuckert’s emphasis on Lincoln as a practical politician who was always fully aware of the political context of the moment within which he was speaking. According to Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg, America was new precisely because it was born in dedication to the first premise of the theory of democratic sovereignty: that all men are created equal. Lincoln’s thought consisted in an ever-deepening meditation on the grounds and implications of that proposition, both in its constructive and in its destructive potential. The goodness of the American regime is derived from that ground and the chief dangers to the regime emanate from the same soil. Covering all significant speeches and writings of Lincoln both in his pre-presidential and presidential days, A Nation So Conceived is devoted to exploring the paradoxical duality of “created equal.” In a nearly comprehensive study of Lincoln’s thought, Zuckert uses lessons he learned from decades of teaching to reveal how Lincoln understood both its truth and its pathological consequences while offering an assessment of his aims and achievements as a statesman.
