Six Characters in Search of a Republic: Studies in the Political Thought of the American ColoniesRevised version of Part II of [the author's] Seedtime of the Republic. |
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Page viii
... colonial status have embarked , this fact , surely , can be ascribed in part to the rise well before 1765 of a political faith dedicated to the kind of ethical , ordered liberty that lies at the core of our traditions . That is why I ...
... colonial status have embarked , this fact , surely , can be ascribed in part to the rise well before 1765 of a political faith dedicated to the kind of ethical , ordered liberty that lies at the core of our traditions . That is why I ...
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... colonial system . Yet it did survive , with no more actual bloodshed than a few battered heads and with its libertarian principles in a remarkable state of preservation . Nor should it be forgotten that while Harris agitated , Gorton ...
... colonial system . Yet it did survive , with no more actual bloodshed than a few battered heads and with its libertarian principles in a remarkable state of preservation . Nor should it be forgotten that while Harris agitated , Gorton ...
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... colonial democrat that we shall observe Dr. Benjamin Franklin . I shall try to confine him rigidly - as if he could be confined at all - to his years as colonial ( 1706-1765 ) and his significance as political thinker . If the narrative ...
... colonial democrat that we shall observe Dr. Benjamin Franklin . I shall try to confine him rigidly - as if he could be confined at all - to his years as colonial ( 1706-1765 ) and his significance as political thinker . If the narrative ...
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Apostle of Soul Liberty | 35 |
A Star of the First Magnitude | 79 |
Herald of Revolution | 116 |
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