Download or read book A Sermon Preached Before Thomas Gage Governor the Council and the House of Representatives of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England May 25 1774 written by Gad Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers written by Daniel L. Dreisbach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture? Shedding new light on some of the most familiar rhetoric of the founding era, Daniel Dreisbach analyzes the founders' diverse use of scripture, ranging from the literary to the theological. He shows that they looked to the Bible for insights on human nature, civic virtue, political authority, and the rights and duties of citizens, as well as for political and legal models to emulate. They quoted scripture to authorize civil resistance, to invoke divine blessings for righteous nations, and to provide the language of liberty that would be appropriated by patriotic Americans. Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers broaches the perennial question of whether the American founding was, to some extent, informed by religious--specifically Christian--ideas. In the sense that the founding generation were members of a biblically literate society that placed the Bible at the center of culture and discourse, the answer to that question is clearly "yes." Ignoring the Bible's influence on the founders, Dreisbach warns, produces a distorted image of the American political experiment, and of the concept of self-government on which America is built.
Download or read book U Turn written by David Barton and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining current research with the authors’ trademark insight and analysis, U-Turn gives readers a unique view of the moral and spiritual condition of Americans and provides specific insights into how we can turn our nation around
Download or read book The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution written by John Phillip Reid and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Liberty was the most cherished right possessed by English-speaking people in the eighteenth century. It was both an ideal for the guidance of governors and a standard with which to measure the constitutionality of government; both a cause of the American Revolution and a purpose for drafting the United States Constitution; both an inheritance from Great Britain and a reason republican common lawyers continued to study the law of England." As John Philip Reid goes on to make clear, "liberty" did not mean to the eighteenth-century mind what it means today. In the twentieth century, we take for granted certain rights—such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press—with which the state is forbidden to interfere. To the revolutionary generation, liberty was preserved by curbing its excesses. The concept of liberty taught not what the individual was free to do but what the rule of law permitted. Ultimately, liberty was law—the rule of law and the legalism of custom. The British constitution was the charter of liberty because it provided for the rule of law. Drawing on an impressive command of the original materials, Reid traces the eighteenth-century notion of liberty to its source in the English common law. He goes on to show how previously problematic arguments involving the related concepts of licentiousness, slavery, arbitrary power, and property can also be fit into the common-law tradition. Throughout, he focuses on what liberty meant to the people who commented on and attempted to influence public affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. He shows the depth of pride in liberty—English liberty—that pervaded the age, and he also shows the extent—unmatched in any other era or among any other people—to which liberty both guided and motivated political and constitutional action.
Download or read book The State Library of Ohio Annual Review written by State Library of Ohio and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Commissioners of the Ohio State Library written by Ohio State Library and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Commissioners of the Ohio State Library written by Ohio State Library and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Revolutionary War Pamphlets in The Newberry Library 1922 written by Ruth Lapham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012 the Newberry library celebrated its 125th Anniversary. This book is a list of the American Revolutionary War pamphlets contained within the library (as of 1922).
Download or read book Documents Including Messages and Other Communications written by Ohio and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Message and Annual Reports for Made to the General Assembly of Ohio written by Ohio and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the annual reports of various Ohio state governmental offices, including the Attorney General, Governor, Secretary of State, etc.
Download or read book American States of Nature written by Mark Somos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American States of Nature transforms our understanding of the American Revolution and the early makings of the Constitution. The journey to an independent United States generated important arguments about the existing condition of Americans, in which rival interpretations of the term "state of nature" played a crucial role. "State of nature" typically implied a pre-political condition and was often invoked in support of individual rights to property and self-defense and the right to exit or to form a political state. It could connote either a paradise, a baseline condition of virtue and health, or a hell on earth. This mutable phrase was well-known in Europe and its empires. In the British colonies, "state of nature" appeared thousands of times in juridical, theological, medical, political, economic, and other texts from 1630 to 1810. But by the 1760s, a distinctively American state-of-nature discourse started to emerge. It combined existing meanings and sidelined others in moments of intense contestation, such as the Stamp Act crisis of 1765-66 and the First Continental Congress of 1774. In laws, resolutions, petitions, sermons, broadsides, pamphlets, letters, and diaries, the American states of nature came to justify independence at least as much as colonial formulations of liberty, property, and individual rights did. In this groundbreaking book, Mark Somos focuses on the formative decade and a half just before the American Revolution. Somos' investigation begins with a 1761 speech by James Otis that John Adams described as "a dissertation on the state of nature," and celebrated as the real start of the Revolution. Drawing on an enormous range of both public and personal writings, many rarely or never before discussed, the book follows the development of America's state-of-nature discourse to 1775. The founding generation transformed this flexible concept into a powerful theme that shapes their legacy to this day. No constitutional history of the Revolution can be written without it.
Download or read book Check List of American Revolutionary War Pamphlets in the Newberry Library written by Newberry Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Main part written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A sermon on Prov xxix 2 preached before his Excellency T Gage Governor and the House of Representatives of the Province of Massachusetts Bay May 25th being the anniversary of the election of His Majesty s Council for said Province written by Gad HITCHCOCK and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 written by Ronald M. Peters and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Constitutional History of the American Revolution written by John Phillip Reid and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
