Democracy at the crossroads : princes, peasants, poets, and presidents in the struggle for (and against) the rule of law / / Craig S. Barnes
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Barnes Craig S
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| Titolo: |
Democracy at the crossroads : princes, peasants, poets, and presidents in the struggle for (and against) the rule of law / / Craig S. Barnes
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| Pubblicazione: | Golden, CO, : Fulcrum, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 321.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Democracy - History |
| Rule of law - History | |
| Civil rights - History | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Democracy at the crossroads |
| ISBN: | 1-68275-144-9 |
| 1-282-48869-4 | |
| 1-936218-05-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825931503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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