The People Shall Judge, Volume I, Part 1: Readings in the Formation of American Policy - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0226770494 ISBN 13 : 9780226770499

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1976

Synopsis

The People Shall Judge provides a complete set of readings for courses in American history and political science and for general social science courses. The editors have assembled more than 250 readings which illustrate the great controversies in America's past, the issues involved in forming American public policy yesterday and today.

These selections have been drawn from systematic philosophies; from opinions expressed in law and judicial decisions; from speeches or pamphlets struck off in the heat of controversy; from political and diplomatic correspondence. They are grouped to focus attention on the perennial issues of liberty, equality, and security in about a dozen significant periods of American history. Volume I, Part 1, begins with a consideration of truth and liberty in the seventeenth century, continues with a study of the issues of the American Revolution, and concludes with a study of the Confederation and the Constitution.

The organization of the readings puts the issues in the context of four fundamental relationships: the citizen and the economy (and, within the economy, the interrelations of major interest groups); the federal union and the states; the United States and the world. The best available texts have been used. Introductions and explanatory notes relate the readings to one another, suggest the circumstances in which they were written, and provide biographical information about the authors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1976
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226770494
• ISBN 13: 9780226770499
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 358
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• Personne responsable: non disponible