Download or read book Downfall and Freedom written by Charles E. Webb and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of miles apart, John Wesley Zooma and Clarence VanDyke Jackson witness horrific events in their young livesevents that ultimately shape the direction of their future. Zooma is a full member of the Zulu tribe in Natal, South Africa, and Jackson is an African American in a small town in south-central Mississippi. Following the traumatic events of their youths, they vow to exact revenge someday. Years later, the two become connected through Jacksons illegal arms trade business. When Jackson falls in love with a Brazilian woman, he decides its time to leave the arms trade behindbut not before brokering one last deal with his partner, a German man named Carl Durnbacher. But Durnbacher doesnt take well to Jacksons defection from the partnership, and he orders a hit on Jackson. In the meantime, trouble is brewing in South Africa, where Zooma is privy to the details of the impending uprising. He uses his resources to aid friend Michael Stephens, who had saved his life during a work accident, escape the country with his family instead of being killed. Through a tangled web of relationships, Downfall and Freedom follows the illegal arms trade business as it becomes involved in the South African revolution.

Download or read book The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom written by Steven D. Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from centuries-old patterns of Christendom to establish a political arrangement committed to secular and religiously neutral government. These novel commitments were supposedly embodied in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. But this story is largely a fairytale, Steven Smith says in this incisive examination of a much-mythologized subject. The American achievement was not a rejection of Christian commitments but a retrieval of classic Christian ideals of freedom of the church and of conscience. Smith maintains that the First Amendment was intended merely to preserve the political status quo in matters of religion. America's distinctive contribution was, rather, a commitment to open contestation between secularist and providentialist understandings of the nation which evolved over the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, far from vindicating constitutional principles, as conventional wisdom suggests, the Supreme Court imposed secular neutrality, which effectively repudiated this commitment to open contestation. Instead of upholding what was distinctively American and constitutional, these decisions subverted it. The negative consequences are visible today in the incoherence of religion clause jurisprudence and the intense culture wars in American politics.

Download or read book Queen Liberty The Concept of Freedom in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth written by Anna Grze?kowiak-Krwawicz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of an idea of freedom in political thought in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from its emergence following the Union of Lublin in 1569 to its collapse in 1795.

Download or read book Freedom and Crisis Since 1860 written by Allen Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Religious Liberty and the Fall of Babylon written by Marc Rasell and published by Marc Rasell. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Liberty is a Biblical principle that man was created with a free will. Satanic forces have worked down the ages to persecute those who are faithful to God's commandments. God is calling people to come out of Babylon before it is too late, a symbol of the corrupt churches that break God's law, turn to civil power for support, and persecute God's commandment keeping people.

Download or read book Liberty and Freedom written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of "Washington's Crossing" and "Albion's Seed" offers a strikingly original history of America's founding principles. Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. 400+ illustrations, 250 in full color.

Download or read book Freedom in Chains written by James Bovard and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments and bureaucracies are bigger and more controlling than ever. A citizen's own ability to control his or her own life has never been less than it has today. How did we get to this point? Jim Bovard, bestselling author of Lost Rights, looks at the development of the State into a behemoth that threatens to destroy the individual at the cost of preserving the idea of "statism"--the belief that government is inherently superior to the citizenry, that progress consists of extending the realm of governmental compulsion, and that vesting more arbitrary power in government officials will eventually make citizens happy. Reading through the history of the state and its war on the citizen, Bovard looks at thinkers as diverse as John Locke, Etienne de la Boetie, James Madison, and Bernard Bosanquet among others. He explores the original version of the idea of the state, the development of the welfare state, the progress of the state's judicial system from the original province of the courts into the lives of men and women and the ultimate fraud that is perpetrated as the state's benevolence. Controversial and essential reading in these times of the Leviathan state, Freedom in Chains is must reading for everyone who took Jim Bovard's Lost Rights to heart as well as anyone trying to understand how far we've come from our eighteenth century roots as a community of impassioned patriots to our sorry positions as wards of the state at the end of the 20th century.

Download or read book The Rebellion Record written by Moore and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Rebellion Record a Diary of American Events with Documents Narratives Illustrative Incidents Poetry Etc written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Freedom s Calling Will You Answer written by Carol Polzin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom's Calling! Will You Answer? is intended to give busy Americans some important political issues of the day to consider. Carol Polzin discusses, from an American grassroots point of view, the potential impact these issues could have on the lives of Americans, possibly forever.

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Download or read book Freedom s Laboratory written by Audra J. Wolfe and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closing in the present day with a discussion of the 2017 March for Science and the prospects for science and science diplomacy in the Trump era, the book demonstrates the continued hold of Cold War thinking on ideas about science and politics in the United States.