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Devising Liberty
Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic
SERIES: The Making of Modern Freedom
1995
400 pages.
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Cloth ISBN: 9780804725361
Paper ISBN: 9780804741934
Digital ISBN: 9780804764667
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.
