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Frances Wright Darusmont

 
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Synopsis

Course Of Popular Lectures: Historical And Political by Frances Wright. This 1836 volume collects Wright Darusmont's public lectures delivered in Cincinnati and Philadelphia on the nature and objects of American political institutions, the dangers of monopolies, and the structure of government. The book argues that chartered monopolies and a centralized bank undermine republican liberty and national independence, and it presents a radical program to reform government through direct popular influence, constitutional law, and peaceful, gradual improvement. It includes discussions of the Federalist era, the Hamilton financial scheme, and the sectional question of Southern slavery, advocating a humane system of national improvement, gradual emancipation and colonization, and the expansion of equal rights to all. The preface recounts the controversy and violence that accompanied Wright's lectures and defends freedom of speech against suppression. The work emphasizes education, public virtue, and the primacy of justice as guiding principles for national reform and the future of humankind.

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