Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic (The Making of Modern Freedom) - Hardcover

 
9780804725361: Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic (The Making of Modern Freedom)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0804725365 ISBN 13: 9780804725361
Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

The nine chapters in this book focus on the various constitutional problems surrounding the need to provide simultaneously a sufficient degree of union and public authority to guarantee defense and order, and a sufficient degree of individual liberty to satisfy the demands and expectations of private citizens who were wary of the arbitrary powers of government.

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The nine chapters in this book focus on the various constitutional problems surrounding the need to provide simultaneously a sufficient degree of union and public authority to guarantee defense and order, and a sufficient degree of individual liberty to satisfy the demands and expectations of private citizens who were wary of the arbitrary powers of government.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0804725365
ISBN 13 
9780804725361
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
400
Editor
Konig David Thomas

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