Devising liberty : preserving and creating freedom in the new American Republic
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
Print Book, English, 1995
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1995
Aufsatzsammlung
viii, 383 pages ; 24 cm
9780804725361, 9780804741934, 0804725365, 080474193X
31206536
Introduction / David Thomas Konig
1. Political Economy and the Creation of the Federal Republic / Lance Banning
2. The Expanding Union / Peter S. Onuf
3. Land and Liberty on the Post-Revolutionary Frontier / Alan Taylor
4. The Meaning of Freedom for Waterfront Workers / Paul A. Gilje
5. The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in the Early Republic / Richard D. Brown
6. Jurisprudence and Social Policy in the New Republic / David Thomas Konig
7. From the Bonds of Empire to the Bonds of Matrimony / Norma Basch
8. The Second Great Awakening and the Market Revolution / Nathan O. Hatch
9. The Problem of Slavery in Southern Political Discourse / Ian Lewis
English
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