Devising Liberty

Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic

• Author(s): David Thomas Konig,
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Pages: 383
• ISBN_10: 080474193X
  ISBN_13: 9780804741934
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / World ,

Description:... The nine chapters in this book focus on the various constitutional problems surrounding the need to provide simultaneously a sufficient degree of union and public authority to guarantee defense and order, and a sufficient degree of individual liberty to satisfy the demands and expectations of private citizens who were wary of the arbitrary powers of government.