Devising Liberty Devising Liberty
The Making of Modern Freedom

Devising Liberty

Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic

David Thomas Konig
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Publisher Description

The nine chapters in this book focus on the various constitutional problems surrounding the need to provide simultaneously a sufficient degree of union and public authority to guarantee defense and order, and a sufficient degree of individual liberty to satisfy the demands and expectations of private citizens who were wary of the arbitrary powers of government.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2002
March 27
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
Stanford University Press
SELLER
Stanford University Press
SIZE
1.7
MB

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