On Civil Liberty and Self-governmentLawbook Exchange, Limited, 2001 - 629 páginas Widely read and used as a political science textbook, this is the best known of Lieber's work. He was a prominent political philosopher who helped lay the foundation for the study of political science in the United States. Renowned for his theory of civil liberty presented here, which combined an appreciation for the English concept of decentralized political institutions with the German idea of an overall national purpose, he bridged the intellectual gap between Europe and America. Enlarged edition in one volume, having first been published in two volumes in 1853. xiv, 629 pp. |
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... petition in a country in which the citizens are so fully represented as with us ; but this is an error . It is a right which can be abused , like any other right , and which in the United States is so far abused as to deprive the petition ...
... petition in a country in which the citizens are so fully represented as with us ; but this is an error . It is a right which can be abused , like any other right , and which in the United States is so far abused as to deprive the petition ...
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... petitions . For five or six weeks , from four o'clock in the afternoon till two or three o'clock in the morning , petition after petition was presented , and each petition was debated . If an account was given of the proceedings of the ...
... petitions . For five or six weeks , from four o'clock in the afternoon till two or three o'clock in the morning , petition after petition was presented , and each petition was debated . If an account was given of the proceedings of the ...
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... petitions must no longer be thrust upon the monarch personally . Under Frederic the Great , again , it was a common thing for petitioners to attract the king's attention by holding the petition above the heads of the crowd , when he ...
... petitions must no longer be thrust upon the monarch personally . Under Frederic the Great , again , it was a common thing for petitioners to attract the king's attention by holding the petition above the heads of the crowd , when he ...
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