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Author | : Carl Anderson |
Publisher | : Square One Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2021-01-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0757055044 |
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Early in this nation’s history, America was populated by many different faith-based communities, each in search of a place to practice its religion. Initially, there was conflict, but by the time our Founding Fathers were ready to establish an independent nation, the idea of religious tolerance had become deeply ingrained in this brave new country’s design. So much so that when the United States Constitution was ratified, it contained a document known as The Bill of Rights—ten amendments detailing the rights of this country’s citizens. And the very First Amendment states,“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . . .” Here lies the foundation of the principle for the separation of state and religion. Over the past few decades, however, the power of the state has usurped a growing number of rights clearly ascribed to those who wish to practice their faith. This has certainly not gone unnoticed by many religious organizations. As the supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, Carl Anderson has taken an active role in highlighting—and protecting against–this ever-growing governmental infringement over fundamental religious freedom. Here in his latest book, These Liberties We Hold Sacred, New York Times best-selling author Carl Anderson has gathered together many of his most thought-provoking speeches, articles, and essays that lay bare the facts of this unjustified restriction of religious beliefs. The power of his words makes it clear that if nothing is done now, there will continue to be more erosion of these special freedoms set forth by our Founding Fathers. Carl Anderson has a gift for writing eloquently, understandably, and directly. His book These Liberties We Hold Sacred is a call to action to first understand what is happening to our religious and personal freedoms and then do all we can to hold on to these precious rights before more of them slip away.
Author | : Roger W. Wilkins |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2002-07-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780807009574 |
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An outspoken participant in the civil rights movement, Roger Wilkins served as Assistant Attorney General during the Johnson administration. In 1972 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with Bernstein and Herblock for his coverage of Watergate. Yet this black man, who has served the United States so well, feels at times an unwelcome guest here. In Jefferson's Pillow, Wilkins returns to America's beginnings and the founding fathers who preached and fought for freedom, even though they owned other human beings and legally denied them their humanity. He asserts that the mythic accounts of the American Revolution have ignored slavery and oversimplified history until the heroes, be they the founders or the slaves in their service, are denied any human complexity. Wilkins offers a thoughtful analysis of this fundamental paradox through his exploration of the lives of George Washington, George Mason, James Madison, and of course Thomas Jefferson. He discusses how class, education, and personality allowed for the institution of slavery, unravels how we as Americans tell different sides of that story, and explores the confounding ability of that narrative to limit who we are and who we can become. An important intellectual history of America's founding, Jefferson's Pillow will change the way we view our nation and ourselves.
Author | : Conor Cruise O'Brien |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226616568 |
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As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, this examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of the French Revolution, offers a provocative analysis of the supreme symbol of American history and political culture and challenges the traditional perceptions of both Jeffersonian history and the Jeffersonian legacy. 15 illustrations.
Author | : Danielle Allen |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0871408139 |
Download Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians “A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.”—Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Kennedy).
Author | : Richard R. Beeman |
Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 046502629X |
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Describes the political, diplomatic, and military challenges faced by the delegates from the 13 colonies at the Continental Congress and how they came together to agree to free themselves from British rule and forge independence for America.
Author | : United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1106 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Constitutional conventions |
ISBN | : |
Download Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Initiative and referendum Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1106 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Author | : Ronald Reagan |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 2020-03-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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The following book collates State of the Union Addresses delivered by the 40th U.S. president, Ronald Reagan, who was the first to begin the tradition. The State of the Union Address is an annual message delivered by the president of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress near the beginning of each calendar year on the current condition of the nation. It generally includes reports on the nation's budget, economy, news, agenda, achievements and the president's priorities and legislative proposals.
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Total Pages | : 1336 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : |
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