George Washington
America's First Progressive
George Washington defined progressivism and provided the rationale for its constitutional basis in a vision of self-government: a nation dedicated to and capable of sustaining civil and religious liberty, the intertwined ends of politics as he saw it. For Washington, religious liberty was not a side benefit of independence but rather the objective for which independence was sought. Washington's political philosophy - radical for his time - was a commitment to the belief that law can never make just what is in its nature unjust. Before the close of the Revolutionary War, he had conceived of a union based on the progressive principle that the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4331-0371-1
- EAN: 9781433103711
- Produktnummer: 19039372
- Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 226 S.
- Masse: H15.8 cm x B23.1 cm x D2.0 cm 536 g
- Auflage: New ed
- Gewicht: 536
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
The Author: W. B. Allen, Professor of Political Philosophy at Michigan State University, has also served on the National Council for the Humanities and as Chairman and Member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is the author of George Washington: A Collection; Habits of Mind: Fostering Access and Excellence in Higher Education (with Carol M. Allen); The Essential Antifederalist (with Gordon Lloyd); and The Federalist Papers: A Commentary. He is currently working on Re-Thinking Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of H. B. Stowe and The Personal and the Political: Three Fables by Montesquieu.
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