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 189
... Constitution rather than natural law as the bulwark of their cherished liberties . Practical political thinking in eighteenth - century America was dominated by two assumptions : that the British Constitution was the best and happiest ...
... Constitution rather than natural law as the bulwark of their cherished liberties . Practical political thinking in eighteenth - century America was dominated by two assumptions : that the British Constitution was the best and happiest ...
Page 195
... Constitution , reduced to its orig- inal Purity , and breathing nothing but Freedom and Jus- tice . " The colonists believed that the ancient , pure , un- corrupted Constitution was their peculiar possession and trust . IX The ...
... Constitution , reduced to its orig- inal Purity , and breathing nothing but Freedom and Jus- tice . " The colonists believed that the ancient , pure , un- corrupted Constitution was their peculiar possession and trust . IX The ...
Page 253
... Constitution willingly , believing that it was the best obtainable under the circumstances , and hoping that it would not frustrate the natural course of demo- cratic progress . Yet he would have preferred a constitution with these ...
... Constitution willingly , believing that it was the best obtainable under the circumstances , and hoping that it would not frustrate the natural course of demo- cratic progress . Yet he would have preferred a constitution with these ...
Contents
Apostle of Soul Liberty | 35 |
A Star of the First Magnitude | 79 |
Herald of Revolution | 116 |
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