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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162831103321

Autore

Barnes Craig S

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Golden, CO, : Fulcrum, 2009

ISBN

1-68275-144-9

1-282-48869-4

1-936218-05-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Speaker's corner

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Democracy - History

Rule of law - History

Civil rights - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

An eye-opening treatise on the international foundations of our liberty and its current challenges.