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America and Enlightenment constitutionalism /
America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism shows in detail the Enlightenment origin of the U.S. Constitution. It provides vivid analysis of how the Enlightenment's basic ideas were reformulated in the context of America. It is particularly successful in bringing out the competing strains of En...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Colección: | Studies of the Americas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Gary L. McDowell and Johnathan O'Neill
- pt I. Enlightenment philosophy and constitutionalism. Recovering (from) Enlightenment? / Steven D. Smith ; The positivization of natural rights / Martin Loughlin ; Epicureanism and the Enlightenment / Frederick Rosen ; Preface to liberalism: Locke's First Treatise and the Bible / Robert Faulkner ; Montesquieu and the constitution of liberty / Paul A. Rahe
- pt II. The Enlightenment and the Constitution in America. The American Enlightenment / Gordon S. Wood ; Enlightenment and experience: the Virginia Constitution of 1776 / Colin Bonwick ; Nation-making and the American constitutional process / J.R. Pole ; Ticklish experiments: the paradox of American constitutionalism / Jack Rakove ; James Madison and the idea of fundamental law / C. Bradley Thompson.