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Democracy at the crossroads : princes, peasants, poets, and presidents in the struggle for (and against) the rule of law / Craig S. Barnes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes, Craig S.
- Series:
- Speaker's Corner
- Speaker's corner
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--History.
- Democracy.
- Rule of law--History.
- Rule of law.
- Civil rights--History.
- Civil rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Golden, CO : Fulcrum, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An eye-opening treatise on the international foundations of our liberty and its current challenges.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781682751442
- 1682751449
- 9781282488694
- 1282488694
- 9781936218059
- 1936218054
- OCLC:
- 536347238
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