An Essay on the First Principles of Government
Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 1771
Category : Church and state
ISBN :
Why Government Is the Problem
Author : Milton Friedman
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0817954430
Book Description
Friedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people." Instead of Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," we now have a government "of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats," including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats.
The Federalist Papers
Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1528785878
Book Description
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
THE MAN VERSUS THE STATE
Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 1916
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Is Government the Source of Monopoly? and Other Essays
Author : Yale Brozen
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
Politics and the English Language
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1913724271
Book Description
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Thoughts on Government: Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies
Author : John Adams
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 1776
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN :
Book Description
Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions
Author : Joseph Marie comte de Maistre
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Constitutions
ISBN :
Book Description
Public Philosophy
Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674019287
Book Description
In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life--individual rights and freedom of choice--do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society. Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307388441
Book Description
This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how such behavior impacts larger groups. With such other classic essays as “Free Silver and the Mind of 'Coin' Harvey” and “What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?, ” The Paranoid Style in American Politics remains both a seminal text of political history and a vital analysis of the ways in which political groups function in the United States.
