Download or read book Letter to Caleb D Anvers Esq written by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1730 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dissertation upon Parties in several letters to Caleb D Anvers Esq dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole The second edition By Henry Saint John Viscount Bolingbroke written by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dissertation Upon Parties in Several Letters to Caleb D Anvers Esq written by Henry St. John (lord Bolingbroke) and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dissertation Upon Parties in Several Letters to Caleb D Anvers written by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir R W c Upon the Present Posture of Affairs Wherein Amongst Other Things the Convention Will be Set in a Clear Light By Caleb Danvers Esq written by Caleb D'Anvers and published by . This book was released on 1739 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dissertation Upon Parties written by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech written by Wendell Bird and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act. The conventional view of the history of freedoms of press and speech is that the common law since antiquity defined those freedoms narrowly, and that Sir William Blackstone in 1769, and Lord Chief Justice Mansfield in 1770, faithfully summarized the common law in giving a very narrow definition of those freedoms as mere liberty from prior restraint and not liberty from punishment after something was printed or spoken. This book proposes, to the contrary, that Blackstone carefully selected the narrowest definition that had been suggested in popular essays in the prior seventy years, in order to oppose the growing claims for much broader protections of press and speech. Blackstone misdescribed his summary as an accepted common law definition, which in fact did not exist. A year later, Mansfield inserted a similar definition into the common law for the first time, also misdescribing it as a long-accepted definition, and soon misdescribed the unique rules for prosecuting sedition as having an equally ancient pedigree. Blackstone and Mansfield were not declaring the law as it had long been, but were leading a counter-revolution about the breadth of freedoms of press and speech, and cloaking it as a summary of a narrow common law doctrine that in fact was nonexistent. That conflict of revolutionary view and counter-revolutionary view continues today. For over a century, a neo-Blackstonian view has been dominant, or at least very influential, among historians. Contrary to those narrow claims, this book concludes that the broad understanding of freedoms of press and speech was the dominant context of the First Amendment and of Fox's Libel Act, and that it enjoyed greater historical support.

Download or read book The Craftsman written by and published by . This book was released on 1731 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John First Viscount Bolingbroke Vol 1 written by Adrian Lashmore-Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) enjoyed varied political and literary careers. This five-volume edition draws together his letters. It includes a general introduction, headnotes, biographical index and a consolidated index. It is suitable for historians and literary scholars working in the eighteenth century.

Download or read book Letters Index written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interpreting Sexual Violence 1660 1800 written by Anne Leah Greenfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection explore representations of and responses to sexual violence over the course of the long eighteenth century. Contributors examine the underlying ideologies that spawned these representations, confronting the social, political, legal and aesthetic conditions of the day.

Download or read book Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary o Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature written by Samuel Halkett and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature written by Samuel Halkett and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agents of the People written by Pasi Ihalainen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing parliamentary references to the people, this book provides a more nuanced interpretation of eighteenth-century re-evaluations of democracy. It shows how interaction between parliamentarians and the public sphere in different political cultures produced more modern conceptions of the legitimacy of political power.

Download or read book Illusory Consensus written by Alexander Pettit and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Pettit analyzes the formation of and the reaction against the notion of a unified opposition to England's de facto prime minister Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), the "great man" of Scriblerian satire who was reviled throughout the 1730s for his hostility to the belles lettres, his alleged disregard of the royal prerogative, and his concentration of power in an oligarchy of parliamentary "placemen." The discussion draws extensively on ephemeral plays, sermons, pamphlets, and newspapers that in their own day were regarded as significant contributions to the political debate. Pettit shows that the myth of coherent anti-Walpoleanism was promoted vigorously by Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751), cofounder of the popular opposition weekly, the Craftsman. But Pettit argues that much of the anti-Walpole literature of the 1730s responds anxiously to Bolingbroke's prescriptive theorizing and questions or criticizes the terms of his appeals to consensus. The opposition was fundamentally in disagreement about how to formulate its objection to modern government. Bolingbroke's reductive fantasy of the opposition has been regarded charitably by modern commentators, most of whom have chosen to regard the "print-wars" as the occasion for Bolingbroke's major political treatises or as background to the satire of his friends, the Scriblerians. This emphasis on a small and interconnected group of writers and sources, however, has caused scholars to neglect the opposition's diversity and its lack of coherence.