[PDF] Fetters On Freedom eBook

Author : James Morton Smith
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 1956
Category : History
ISBN :

GET BOOK

This first of two volumes on the Alien and Sedition Laws, therefore, concentrates as exclusively as possible on the enactment and enforcement of the Federalist measures of 1798 and attempts to assess their influence in shaping the development of the political process of republicanism, with its dual goals of majority rule and individual rights. A second volume, on the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, will deal with the opposition to this repressive legislation, the issues which this opposition raised concerning fundamental rights, and the significance of the Resolutions as an exposition upon the nature of the American constitutional system. Together they will form an integrated investigation of the relationship between liberty and authority in a popular form of government, thus constituting a chapter in the evolution of the American civil liberties tradition. - Preface.

Author : Cyrus Townsend Brady
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780265183878

GET BOOK

Excerpt from The Fetters of Freedom As everybody knows who is familiar with the making of my many books, but one out of the number I have written is without a preface. Like everybody addicted to the preface habit I have been accustomed to write the preface after everything else has been completed. This time I reverse the practice. Gentle reader, not one word of the story has as yet been put on paper! I am resolved to be honest in at least one book, and my preface shall be not only the thing that goes before, but the thing that is before; hence this beginning. When a man creates a certain number of subjects in the kingdom of his imagination, when he endows them with temper and temperament, when they are imbued with personality, which manifests itself in character and is set forth in characteristics, and finally when he sets them upon the stage of his world of romance, he cannot always be quite sure where they will go, what they will do, what they will say, and what will happen to them. It is harder sometimes to control the child of the imagi nation than it is to direct the real boy or girl. I have had much experience with both kinds of children and I speak with authority! Yet it is an imprudent parent that does not lay some plans for his offspring in the beginning, therefore I have certain designs for my people, young and old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.