| Description |
xi, 472 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Of liberty and colonies" : a case study of constitutional conflict in the mid-eighteenth-century British American empire / Jack P. Greene -- Dialectic of liberty : law and religion in revolutionary America / Robert A. Ferguson -- Religious conscience and original sin : an exploitation of America's Protestant foundations / Barry Shain -- Liberty, metaphor, and mechanism : "checks and balances" and the origins of modern constitutionalism / David Wootton -- Moral sense theory and the appeal to natural rights in the American founding / R.G. Frey -- "Riches valuable at all times and to all men" : Hume and the eighteenth-century debate on commerce and liberty / John W. Danford -- Scottish thought and the American revolution : Adam Ferguson's response to Richard Price / Ronald Hamowy -- Federalism, constitutionalism, and republican liberty : the first constructions of the constitution / Lance Banning -- Is there a "James Madison problem"? / Gordon S. Wood. |
| Subject |
Liberty.
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Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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| Added Author |
Womersley, David.
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| ISBN |
0865976295 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780865976290 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2385044 |
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IG# 0865976295 |
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