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Liberty and equality : the American conversation /

"This book summarizes American history as told through ideas rather than events. Adopting Tocqueville's binary view of America's political tradition--liberty and equality--Seagrave has provided readers with a penetrating analysis of these two core principles in relation to constitutio...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Seagrave, S. Adam (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
Colección:American poltiical thought
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Liberty and Equality: The American Ideas; Declaration of Independence; Slavery Paragraph from Thomas Jeffersonâ#x80;#x99;s Draft; Thomas Jefferson to Roger Weightman; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Authorâ#x80;#x99;s Introduction to Volume I, Part 1; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 3; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 1; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 4; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 4, Chapter 1
  • Peter S. Onuf, Jefferson and Tocqueville on Liberty and Equality2. Liberty, Equality, and Constitutional Principles; Section 1. Representation and Democracy; Publius, Federalist 10; Publius, Federalist 39 (First Half); Publius, Federalist 57; Thomas Jefferson to James Madison; Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 4; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 5; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 3, Chapter 12; Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, â#x80;Economic Bill of Rightsâ#x80;#x9D;Ralph Ketcham, Representation and Democracy; Section 2. Federalism; Publius, Federalist 14; Publius, Federalist 15; Publius, Federalist 37; Publius, Federalist 39 (Second Half ); Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 8; Alan Gibson and James H. Read, Madisonian Federalism and the American Conversation on Liberty and Equality; Section 3. Separation of Powers; Publius, Federalist 47; Publius, Federalist 51; Publius, Federalist 71; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 8
  • Michael P. Zuckert, The Separation of Powers3. Liberty, Equality, and Religion; John Winthrop, â#x80;A Model of Christian Charityâ#x80;#x9D;; James Madison, â#x80;Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessmentsâ#x80;#x9D;; George Washington, Letter to the Annual Meeting of Quakers; Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom; Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Danbury Baptists; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 2, Chapter 9; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 15; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 1, Chapter 5
  • Wilfred M. McClay, On Religious Liberty and Its Special Status in American Life4. Liberty, Equality, and Race; Alexander Hamilton to John Jay; Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia; Publius, Federalist 54; James Madison, Memorandum on an African Colony for Freed Slaves; Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 2, Chapter 10; William Lloyd Garrison, On the Constitution and the Union; Frederick Douglass, â#x80;What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?â#x80;#x9D;; Seventh Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Alton, Illinois
  • Peter C. Myers, Liberty, Equality, and Race in Americaâ#x80;#x99;s Republican Experiment