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Autore: | Kirk Russell |
Titolo: | The roots of American order / / Russell Kirk |
Pubblicazione: | Wilmington, DE : , : ISI Books, , [2014] |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (384 pages) |
Disciplina: | 320.09 |
Soggetto topico: | Political science - History |
Law - History | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Foreword -- 1. Order, the first need of all -- 2. The law and the prophets : From Mount Sinai to Massachusetts Bay ; Jerusalem: triumph and disaster ; The God of justice ; Righteousness and wrath ; Under God in time and history ; The Old Testament and the new America -- 3. Glory and ruin: the Greek world : The one betraying flaw of the Hellenes ; Solon and the Athenian polity ; And the house fell ; The cave and the dust-storm ; Aristotle and political forms -- 4. Virtue and power: the roman tension : The high old Roman virtue ; Cicero and the law of nature ; Imperial splendor and misery ; Marcus Aurelius as exemplar ; These ruins are inhabited -- 5. The genius of Christianity : The suffering servant comes ; We are God's utopia ; Living in a sinful world ; Two there are by whom this world is ruled -- 6. The light of the Middle Ages : A neglected inheritance ; The reign of law ; The frame of the English constitution ; The sword of faith ; Schoolmen and universities -- |
7. The Reformers' drum : A little lower than the angels ; The priesthood of all believers ; England's middle path ; Kirk and covenant -- 8. The constitution of Church and State : Civil War and recovery of order ; The face of leviathan ; An Anglican doctor and a Puritan lay preacher ; A note on John Locke ; The politics of Whigs -- 9. Salutary neglect: the Colonial order : Austerity, isolation, and freedom ; American gentlemen ; Representative Assemblies and local autonomy ; The new world's Christianity -- 10. Eighteenth-century intellects : Constitutional order: Montesquieu ; Skeptical realism: Hume ; The laws of England: Blackstone ; The politics of prudence: Burke -- 11. Declaration and Constitution : A revolution not made, but prevented? ; Justifying the separation ; The spirit of laws realised: the new Constitution ; The Federal Constitution and religious belief -- | |
12. Contending against American disorder : The power of laws and mores ; Lincoln and the defense of the American order ; Brownson and the just society ; In God's own good time. | |
Titolo autorizzato: | The roots of American order |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910464047903321 |
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