Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling: Physiological, Performance, Growth, Longevity and Ecological RamificationsThis book is an exploration not only of the lessons that Abraham Lincoln, America's sixteenth president, drew from the founders of the United States, especially, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but also how others abroad have interpreted and incorporated his legacy. Because Lincoln occupied the presidency during democracy's first great civil war, he set a precedent for other leaders at home and abroad. "Liberal" leaders tend to identify with his roles as the Great Emancipator and magnanimous Great Reconciler, who eschewed "ethnic cleansing" in favour of restoring the Union as soon as possible after secession. |
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Contents
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Abraham Lincolns Thomas Jefferson | 39 |
Washingtons Farewell Address and Lincolns Lyceum Address | 77 |
Jefferson Lincoln and Religious Freedom | 95 |
Invoking the Framers The LincolnDouglas Debates | 113 |
Lincoln Seward and the United Kingdom | 123 |
Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties The Balance of Liberty and Security | 135 |
Ex Parte Milligan Lincolns Use of Military Commissions | 155 |
The Rectitude of Their Intentions Proclaiming Independence in Philadelphia and Tel Aviv | 169 |
About the Contributors | 185 |
Index | 187 |
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Page 86 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.
Page 81 - It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels no government would be necessary.
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Page 103 - And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.
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Page 97 - American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
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Page 58 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 89 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling: Physiological, Performance, Growth, Longevity and Ecological Ramifications Nova biomedical |
| Authors | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Nova Publishers, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1600213189, 9781600213182 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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