The world tends to disorder, not order. The maintenance of liberty and prosperity requires constant deliberate action. As such, there is no escaping the personal responsibility we each hold to our freedom. When we surrender our responsibility to liberty and prosperity over to government, it uses ...
The American Liberty League and the Rise of Constitutional NationalismThis Article launches a project to identify constitutional nationalism - the conviction that the nation's fundamental values are embodied in the Constitution -Social Science Electronic Publishing...
I have taken the liberty of adding the infinitive (“to know”) to the last phrase to make more apparent the allusion to Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian urn.” Ricky Ray praises the “double-rhyming in bough / though and how / know.” Impossible to overlook Angela Ball’s lovely ...
On lobbies, liberty, and the public good. The author reflects on liberty, lobbying and the public good. She states that special-interest lobbies frequently influence legislation and regulations by making a pitch for individual freedom and they are done in ways detrimental to the... SP Baker -...
In Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, the whole idea of political government was to protect the natural individual rights of life, liberty, and property of peaceful citizens from criminal violence and foreign threats, and the first part of the Declaration reads like a summary of Locke...
CHAPTER THIRTEEN“The Coordinator of Rapid Rupture”Now I could see at firsthand the tremendous intellectual power of Oppenheimer who was the unquestionedleader of our group. . . . The intellectual experience wasunforgettable.HANS BETHEOPPENHEIMER’S STEADY AND OFTEN BRILLIANT contributions at the “...
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, The Grant Administration | Tagged Algernon Sidney Badger, Battle of Liberty Place (Battle of Canal Street), Davidson Bradfute Penn, James Longstreet, John McEnery, Louisiana, New Orleans, Ulysses S. Grant, White League, Will...
The abolitionist organization, the Liberty League, holds its national convention in Rochester, New York. August 9-10, 1848 The Free Soil Party is founded in Buffalo, New York. It includes members of the “Conscience Whigs” Party, Democrats and members of the Liberty Party. The motto is, “...
where this time maybe I could win a great victory for the emperor. More than a few books on my shelves cover the campaigns of Napoleon. But as my dad quipped to me, Napoleon wanted to give people liberty, equality, and fraternity at the point of his sword. And that, my dad would sa...
Campbell. He was also of Scottish-Jewish descent, and a rumored bisexual. They became screen writing partners and signed a contract with Paramount Pictures in 1935. In 1936 she helped found the Anti Nazi League. In 1937 Dorothy won an academy award for her joint screenplay of “A Star is ...