Letters to and from Caesar Rodney, 1756-1784 ... Edited by George Herbert Ryden. [With Portraits.].
Author : Caesar RODNEY
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : Caesar RODNEY
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : Caesar Rodney
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Delaware
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Author : Caesar Rodney
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Caesar Rodney
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : New York Public Library. Reference Department
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Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 1961
Category : America
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Author : New York Public Library. Reference Dept
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Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 1961
Category : America
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Author : Larry D. Kramer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2004-06-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198037821
In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular sovereignty" was not just some historical abstraction, and the notion of "the people" was more than a flip rhetorical device invoked on the campaign trail. Questions of constitutional meaning provoked vigorous public debate and the actions of government officials were greeted with celebratory feasts and bonfires, or riotous resistance. Americans treated the Constitution as part of the lived reality of their daily existence. Their self-sovereignty in law as much as politics was active not abstract.
Author : David McKean
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1610392221
The last signatory to the Declaration of Independence was one of the earliest to sign up for the Revolution: Thomas McKean lived a radical, boisterous, politically intriguing life and was one of the most influential and enduring of America's Founding Fathers. Present at almost all of the signature moments on the road to American nationhood, from the first Continental Congress onward, Thomas McKean was a colonel in the Continental Army; president of the Continental Congress; governor of Pennsylvania; and, perhaps most importantly, chief justice of the new country's most influential state, Pennsylvania, a foundational influence on American law. His life uniquely intersected with the many centers of power in the still-formative country during its most vulnerable years, and shows the degree of uncertainty that characterized newly independent America, unsure of its future or its identity. Thomas McKean knew intimately not only the heroic figures of the Revolutionary era -- George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin -- but also the fascinating characters who fought over the political identity of the new country, such as Caesar Rodney, Francis Hopkinson, and Alexander Dallas. His life reminds us that America's creation was fraught with dangers and strife, backstabbing and bar-brawling, courage and stubbornness. McKean's was an epic ride during utterly momentous times.
Author : Ricardo A. Herrera
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 147986790X
In the early decades of the American Republic, American soldiers demonstrated and defined their beliefs about the nature of American republicanism and how they, as citizens and soldiers, were participants in the republican experiment through their service. In For Liberty and the Republic, Ricardo A. Herrera examines the relationship between soldier and citizen from the War of Independence through the first year of the Civil War. The work analyzes an idealized republican ideology as a component of soldiering in both peace and war. Herrera argues that American soldiers’ belief system—the military ethos of republicanism—drew from the larger body of American political thought. This ethos illustrated and informed soldiers’ faith in an inseparable connection between bearing arms on behalf of the republic, and earning and holding citizenship in it. Despite the undeniable existence of customs, organizations, and behaviors that were uniquely military, the officers and enlisted men of the regular army, states’ militias, and wartime volunteers were the products of their society, and they imparted what they understood as important elements of American thought into their service. Drawing from military and personal correspondence, journals, orderly books, militia constitutions, and other documents in over forty archives in twenty-three states, Herrera maps five broad, interrelated, and mutually reinforcing threads of thought constituting soldiers’ beliefs: Virtue; Legitimacy; Self-governance; Glory, Honor, and Fame; and the National Mission. Spanning periods of war and peace, these five themes constituted a coherent and long-lived body of ideas that informed American soldiers’ sense of identity for generations.