Of Heretics, Traitors and True Believers

Of Heretics, Traitors and True Believers PDF Author:
Publisher: Telford Publications
ISBN: 0983146845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Of Heretics, Traitors and True Believers

Of Heretics, Traitors and True Believers PDF Author:
Publisher: Telford Publications
ISBN: 0983146845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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We Must Fight

We Must Fight PDF Author:
Publisher: Telford Publications
ISBN: 0983146861
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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A Wound on His Spirit

A Wound on His Spirit PDF Author: George T. Morrow (II.)
Publisher: Telford Publications
ISBN: 0983146888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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War!

War! PDF Author: George T. Morrow II
Publisher: Telford Publications
ISBN: 098314687X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Williamsburg at Dawn

Williamsburg at Dawn PDF Author:
Publisher: Telford Publications
ISBN: 0983146837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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American States of Nature

American States of Nature PDF Author: Mark Somos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190462868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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American States of Nature transforms our understanding of the American Revolution and the early makings of the Constitution. The journey to an independent United States generated important arguments about the existing condition of Americans, in which rival interpretations of the term "state of nature" played a crucial role. "State of nature" typically implied a pre-political condition and was often invoked in support of individual rights to property and self-defense and the right to exit or to form a political state. It could connote either a paradise, a baseline condition of virtue and health, or a hell on earth. This mutable phrase was well-known in Europe and its empires. In the British colonies, "state of nature" appeared thousands of times in juridical, theological, medical, political, economic, and other texts from 1630 to 1810. But by the 1760s, a distinctively American state-of-nature discourse started to emerge. It combined existing meanings and sidelined others in moments of intense contestation, such as the Stamp Act crisis of 1765-66 and the First Continental Congress of 1774. In laws, resolutions, petitions, sermons, broadsides, pamphlets, letters, and diaries, the American states of nature came to justify independence at least as much as colonial formulations of liberty, property, and individual rights did. In this groundbreaking book, Mark Somos focuses on the formative decade and a half just before the American Revolution. Somos' investigation begins with a 1761 speech by James Otis that John Adams described as "a dissertation on the state of nature," and celebrated as the real start of the Revolution. Drawing on an enormous range of both public and personal writings, many rarely or never before discussed, the book follows the development of America's state-of-nature discourse to 1775. The founding generation transformed this flexible concept into a powerful theme that shapes their legacy to this day. No constitutional history of the Revolution can be written without it.

Command and Persuade

Command and Persuade PDF Author: Peter Baldwin
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262546027
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 475

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Why, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever before? Levels of violent crime have been in a steady decline for centuries--for millennia, even. Over the past five hundred years, homicide rates have decreased a hundred-fold. We live in a time that is more orderly and peaceful than ever before in human history. Why, then, does fear of crime dominate modern politics? Why, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever before? In Command and Persuade, Peter Baldwin examines the evolution of the state's role in crime and punishment over three thousand years. Baldwin explains that the involvement of the state in law enforcement and crime prevention is relatively recent. In ancient Greece, those struck by lightning were assumed to have been punished by Zeus. In the Hebrew Bible, God was judge, jury, and prosecutor when Cain killed Abel. As the state’s power as lawgiver grew, more laws governed behavior than ever before; the sum total of prohibited behavior has grown continuously. At the same time, as family, community, and church exerted their influences, we have become better behaved and more law-abiding. Even as the state stands as the socializer of last resort, it also defines through law the terrain on which we are schooled into acceptable behavior.

The Traitor's Way

The Traitor's Way PDF Author: Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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The traitor's way

The traitor's way PDF Author: S. Levett Yeats
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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"The traitor's way" by S. Levett Yeats. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

George Washington and the Immortal Moment

George Washington and the Immortal Moment PDF Author: George Morrow
Publisher: Telford Publications
ISBN: 0983146853
Category : Military planning
Languages : en
Pages : 51

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