American Convictions: Cycles of Public Thought, 1600-1850Lippincott, 1970 - 632 pages Studies the bases and fluctuations of American political thought and attitudes from the colonial experience to the dawn of industrialism. |
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... freedom and organization were set in operating balance , the Englishman concludes . Through the years since 1688 distinguished thinkers about freedom , Whigs or Liberals in politics - the philosopher John Locke and the historian Thomas ...
... freedom and organization were set in operating balance , the Englishman concludes . Through the years since 1688 distinguished thinkers about freedom , Whigs or Liberals in politics - the philosopher John Locke and the historian Thomas ...
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... Freedom of the Will testifies again , he was far from saying that holiness never comes to man ; he simply said that it never comes to him from his appetites and his love for his own . When it does come , a man is a “ natural man ” no ...
... Freedom of the Will testifies again , he was far from saying that holiness never comes to man ; he simply said that it never comes to him from his appetites and his love for his own . When it does come , a man is a “ natural man ” no ...
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... freedom of worship was inscribed in the bills of rights . The full principle of religious freedom would have swept away all church taxes , but though not enacted it had received a wider public hearing than before in Puritan land ...
... freedom of worship was inscribed in the bills of rights . The full principle of religious freedom would have swept away all church taxes , but though not enacted it had received a wider public hearing than before in Puritan land ...
Contents
English Ways in American Regions | 27 |
The Old Order Brought Overseas | 33 |
English Freedoms Transplanted to Chesapeake Shores | 41 |
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