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Author | : David Wootton |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780872206533 |
The seventeenth century was England's century of revolution, an era in which the nation witnessed protracted civil wars, the execution of a king, and the declaration of a short-lived republic. During this period of revolutionary crisis, political writers of all persuasions hoped to shape the outcome of events by the force of their arguments. To read the major political theorists of Stuart England is to be plunged into a world in which many of our modern conceptions of political rights and social change are first formulated. David Wootton's masterly compilation of speeches, essays, and fiercely polemical pamphlets--organized into chapters focusing on the main debates of the century--represents the first attempt to present in one volume a broad collection of Stuart political thought. In bringing together abstract theorizing and impassioned calls to arms, anonymous tract writers and King James I, Wootton has produced a much-needed collection; in combination with the editor's thoughtful running commentary and invaluable Introduction, its texts bring to life a crucial period in the formation of our modern liberal and conservative theories.
Author | : Clarence True Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Democracy |
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Author | : Clarence True Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Timothy Murere Njoya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Christianity and politics |
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Author | : Marjorie Kelly |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2003-01-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1609941942 |
Annotation In this radical critique of the corporate economy--newly updated with information on Enron and other business scandals--the cofounder and editor of "Business Ethics" questions the legitimacy of a system that gives the wealthy few disproportionate power over the many
Author | : Robert Filmer |
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Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1685 |
Genre | : Monarchy |
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Author | : Clarence True Wilson |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780483876286 |
Excerpt from The Divine Right of Democracy, or the People's Right to Rule: A Study in Citizenship Almost every standard work on the origin Of the Constitution and government Of the United States learnedly traces the develop ment Of all the germs Of democracy in Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, Greece, and Rome, through our anglo-saxon ancestors into the English common law, and then from the com mon law to our federal Constitution. But, if they are Roman Catholic in their training, they laboriously belittle the influence Of the English common law in favor of the Roman civil law, and attribute all the growth of the equity idea in our courts to Rome, in order to lay the foundation for a claim that the United States Constitution and federal enactments owe more to the Roman civilization than to the British. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Miguel Vatter |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2020-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190942355 |
"The 'return of religion' in the public sphere and the emergence of post-secular societies have propelled the discourse of political theology into the centre of contemporary democratic theory. This situation calls forth the question addressed in this book: Is a democratic political theology possible? Carl Schmitt first developed the idea of the Christian theological foundations of modern legal and political concepts in order to criticize the secular basis of liberal democracy. He employed political theology to argue for the continued legitimacy of the absolute sovereignty of the state against the claims raised by pluralist and globalized civil society. This book shows how, after Schmitt, some of the main political theorists of the 20th century, from Jacques Maritain to Jèurgen Habermas, sought to establish an affirmative connection between Christian political theology, popular sovereignty and the legitimacy of democratic government. In so doing, the political representation of God in the world was no longer placed in the hands of hierarchical and sovereign lieutenants (Church, Empire, Nation), but in a series of democratic institutions, practices and conceptions like direct representation, constitutionalism, universal human rights, and public reason that reject the primacy of sovereignty"--
Author | : Amy Kittelstrom |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1594204853 |
The first people in the world to call themselves 'liberals' were New England Christians in the early republic, for whom being liberal meant being receptive to a range of beliefs and values. The story begins in the mid-eighteenth century, when the first Boston liberals brought the Enlightenment into Reformation Christianity, tying equality and liberty to the human soul at the same moment these root concepts were being tied to democracy. The nineteenth century saw the development of a robust liberal intellectual culture in America, built on open-minded pursuit of truth and acceptance of human diversity. By the twentieth century, what had begun in Boston as a narrow, patrician democracy transformed into a religion of democracy in which the new liberals of modern America believed that where different viewpoints overlap, common truth is revealed. The core American principles of liberty and equality were never free from religion but full of religion.
Author | : Algernon Sidney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1763 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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