Statue of Liberty
Author | : L. E. Bond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : 9781880352465 |
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A tourist guide to the Statue of Liberty.
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Author | : L. E. Bond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : 9781880352465 |
A tourist guide to the Statue of Liberty.
Author | : Liberty S. Savard |
Publisher | : Logos |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780882707808 |
First you learned to shatter all your inner strongholds in Shattering Your Strongholds. Then from Breaking the Power you learned to destroy the power of the unsurrendered soul (the old nature) and all its defenses that kept you locked in the past.
Author | : Tiffany Stockton |
Publisher | : Barbour Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781602607996 |
Promises, Promises, Quills and Promises, and Deceptive Promises.
Author | : Alexander Tsesis |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231141440 |
In these original essays, America's leading historians and legal scholars reassess the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and its relevance to issues of liberty, justice, and equality. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, reasserting the radical, egalitarian dimensions of the Constitution. It also laid the foundations for future civil rights and social justice legislation. Yet subsequent reinterpretation and misappropriation have curbed more substantive change. With constitutional jurisprudence undergoing a revival, The Promises of Liberty provides a full portrait of the Thirteenth Amendment and its potential for ensuring liberty. The collection begins with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Brion Davis, who discusses the failure of the Thirteenth Amendment to achieve its framers' objectives. The next piece, by Alexander Tsesis, provides a detailed account of the Amendment's revolutionary character. James M. McPherson, another Pulitzer recipient, recounts the influence of abolitionists on the ratification process, and Paul Finkelman focuses on who freed the slaves and President Lincoln's commitment to ending slavery. Michael Vorenberg revisits the nineteenth century's understanding of freedom and citizenship and the Amendment's surprisingly small role in the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction periods. William M. Wiecek shows how the Supreme Court's narrow interpretation once rendered the guarantee of freedom nearly illusory, and the collection's third Pulitzer Prize winner, David M. Oshinsky, explains how peonage undermined the prohibition against compulsory service. Subsequent essays relate the Thirteenth Amendment to congressional authority, hate crimes legislation, the labor movement, and immigrant rights. These chapters analyze unique features of the amendment along with its elusive meanings and affirm its power to reform criminal and immigration law, affirmative action policies, and the protection of civil liberties.
Author | : Pamela Parizo |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2017-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781978205222 |
On the eve of the American Revolution, widowed Anna Barton must choose between two suitors--the handsome and aristocractic Reverend Thomas Rockdale who sweeps her off her feet but wants to overpower her or the simple carpenter, Caleb Strong, who offers her stability and strength of faith. Amidst the unfolding of a war for freedom, she must discover which man offers her the promise of freedom.
Author | : Alexander Tsesis |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2010-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231520131 |
In these original essays, America's leading historians and legal scholars reassess the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and its relevance to issues of liberty, justice, and equality. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, reasserting the radical, egalitarian dimensions of the Constitution. It also laid the foundations for future civil rights and social justice legislation. Yet subsequent reinterpretation and misappropriation have curbed more substantive change. With constitutional jurisprudence undergoing a revival, The Promises of Liberty provides a full portrait of the Thirteenth Amendment and its potential for ensuring liberty. The collection begins with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Brion Davis, who discusses the failure of the Thirteenth Amendment to achieve its framers' objectives. The next piece, by Alexander Tsesis, provides a detailed account of the Amendment's revolutionary character. James M. McPherson, another Pulitzer recipient, recounts the influence of abolitionists on the ratification process, and Paul Finkelman focuses on who freed the slaves and President Lincoln's commitment to ending slavery. Michael Vorenberg revisits the nineteenth century's understanding of freedom and citizenship and the Amendment's surprisingly small role in the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction periods. William M. Wiecek shows how the Supreme Court's narrow interpretation once rendered the guarantee of freedom nearly illusory, and the collection's third Pulitzer Prize winner, David M. Oshinsky, explains how peonage undermined the prohibition against compulsory service. Subsequent essays relate the Thirteenth Amendment to congressional authority, hate crimes legislation, the labor movement, and immigrant rights. These chapters analyze unique features of the amendment along with its elusive meanings and affirm its power to reform criminal and immigration law, affirmative action policies, and the protection of civil liberties.
Author | : Eric Metaxas |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2017-06-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1101979992 |
#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America. In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A republic," he shot back, "if you can keep it." More than two centuries later, Metaxas examines what that means and how we are doing on that score. If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness—including our role as a "nation of nations"—and a chilling reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we embrace our own crucial role in living out what the founders entrusted to us. Metaxas explains that America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based on liberty and freedom for all. He cautions us that it's nearly past time we reconnect to that idea, or we may lose the very foundation of what made us exceptional in the first place.
Author | : Jen Manion |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812292421 |
Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who were previously dependents with no legal standing—women, enslaved people, and indentured servants—increasingly claimed their own right to life, liberty, and happiness. A diverse cast of women and men, including immigrants, African Americans, and the Irish and Anglo-American poor, struggled to make a living. Vagrancy laws were used to crack down on those who visibly challenged longstanding social hierarchies while criminal convictions carried severe sentences for even the most trivial property crimes. The penitentiary was designed to reestablish order, both behind its walls and in society at large, but the promise of reformative incarceration failed from its earliest years. Within this system, women served a vital function, and Liberty's Prisoners is the first book to bring to life the e xperience of African American, immigrant, and poor white women imprisoned in early America. Always a minority of prisoners, women provided domestic labor within the institution and served as model inmates, more likely to submit to the authority of guards, inspectors, and reformers. White men, the primary targets of reformative incarceration, challenged authorities at every turn while African American men were increasingly segregated and denied access to reform. Liberty's Prisoners chronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment for the most egregious of offenders, quickly became a repository for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation's promise of liberty.
Author | : Amber Miller Stockton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tibor R. Machan |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2009-04-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0739130765 |
Tibor Machan's central political imperative in The Promise of Liberty is one that he has found borne out by history, analysis, and personal experience: to recognize that individuals have unalienable rights to their lives, liberty, and property (which includes, of course, the pursuit of their happiness, their life agendas), that the only limitations on these rights should be others' equal rights, and that the proper function or role of the legal authorities in a country is to 'secure' or protect these rights. As Machan points out, however, that imperative cannot survive scrutiny all on its own; it needs to be grounded on other true notions, on facts about us, the world, and the nature of community life. As a result, this book touches on a wide-ranging array of topics and addresses basic issues in ethics and the possibility of moral and ethical knowledge. This book will be of interest to students of politics and political economy, as well as those interested in what kind of human community is best suited for human living as such, with all its variety and multiplicity.