Democracy at the crossroads [[electronic resource] ] : princes, peasants, poets, and presidents in the struggle for (and against) the rule of law / / Craig S. Barnes

• Autore: Barnes Craig S
• Pubblicazione: Golden, CO, : Fulcrum, 2009
• 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
• Serie: Speaker's Corner