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Autore |
Barnes Craig S |
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Titolo |
Democracy at the crossroads [[electronic resource] ] : princes, peasants, poets, and presidents in the struggle for (and against) the rule of law / / Craig S. Barnes |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Golden, CO, : Fulcrum, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-68275-144-9 |
1-282-48869-4 |
1-936218-05-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Democracy - History |
Rule of law - History |
Civil rights - History |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: John Cooke Indicts His Majesty the King; A Pocket History of the Rule of Law; 1: The Long Life of Lying; 2: The Short Life of an Honest Man in Rome; 3: The Miserable Life of a Feudal King; 4: The Half-life of Feudalism and the Birth of Law; 5: Poets as Midwives; 6: The Cradle Century; 7: A Rebel Even a King Would Save; 8: Unparalleled Courage, Fraud, and Revolution; 9: The Birth of a Republic; Rebirth of the Feudal Mind in the United States; 10: To Suspend the Law, Again; 11: Special Courts, Again; 12: War Privileges, Again; 13: The Law of Nations Ignored |
14: While Congress Slept15: Today's Tug-of-War; American Values Deeper than Capitalism, Deeper than Law; 16: Beyond the Eternal Order of Lying; 17: Beyond Pure Self-Interest; 18: Beyond the Sword; 19: Beyond the Easy Lie; 20: Beyond Bribery; An Age Ends; 21: Finding Direction in a Time of Chaos |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An eye-opening treatise on the international foundations of our liberty and its current challenges. |
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