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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
mobi, epub |zho | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edmund Burke

Section V. Proportion Further Considered If I am not mistaken, a great deal of the prejudice in favour of proportion has arisen, not so much from the observation of any ...
( Category: History & Theory July 20,2020 )
The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage
azw3 |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:David Stasavage

Massachusetts In the case of Massachusetts, after a few decades, settlements were dispersed across a wide territory, making the exercise of hierarchical control from Boston difficult if not impossible. Nothing ...
( Category: Canadian July 20,2020 )
The Athenian Constitution (The Penguin classics) by Aristotle
epub |eng | 2004-07-01 | Author:Aristotle

P THE ATHLOTHETAE (Chapter 60) Having completed his survey of officials appointed annually by lot our author turns to officials of other kinds, in this chapter a board which was ...
( Category: Constitutions July 17,2020 )
America: Imagine a World Without Her by Dinesh D'Souza
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Dinesh D'Souza

CHAPTER 10 THE VIRTUE OF PROSPERITY There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently occupied than in getting money.1 SAMUEL JOHNSON, BOSWELL S LIFE OF JOHNSON ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism July 16,2020 )
The Digest of Roman Law: Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult by Justinian
epub |eng | 2007-02-22 | Author:Justinian

CONCERNING THEFT BOOK 47, TITLE 2 1. (PAUL) Labeo says that the very word for theft (furtum) is itself derived from a Latin word meaning ‘black’, because it is committed ...
( Category: Comparative Politics July 16,2020 )
Sheldon, Sidney - Windmills of the Gods by Sheldon Sidney
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-04-23 | Author:Sheldon, Sidney

Chapter Eight THE day Beth and Tim were to start school, Mary got a call at five a.m. from the embassy that a NIACT-A night action cable-had come in and ...
( Category: Espionage July 16,2020 )
On Government by Cicero
epub |eng | 2006-02-23 | Author:Cicero

So I went on. ‘In gaiety and wit,’ I continued, ‘Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus, son of Lucius, outdid all his contemporaries and his predecessors as well.3 His oratory was ...
( Category: History & Theory July 16,2020 )
Selected Political Speeches by Cicero
epub |eng | 2004-11-25 | Author:Cicero

Surely that is all you can have been waiting for – short of expecting that the case and Truth themselves will somehow take shape and speak and plead in their ...
( Category: History & Theory July 16,2020 )
Political Junkies by Claire Bond Potter
epub |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:Claire Bond Potter [BOND POTTER, CLAIRE]

8 MYBARACKOBAMA In 2008, the unstated question was: Would the next Democratic candidate be the first woman, or the first African American, to be nominated by a major party? On ...
( Category: Elections July 11,2020 )
Demagogue by Larry Tye
epub |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:Larry Tye

Alarm about the dynamic between the battle-scarred senator and the neophyte president also was spreading abroad. “In his attitude toward the G.P.U. Senator, courageous General Eisenhower appears to be downright ...
( Category: History & Theory July 10,2020 )
The Political Potential of Sortition by Oliver Dowlen
epub |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Oliver Dowlen

Guicciardini’s presentation of the lot/voting controversy in the History of Italy, therefore, is a deliberate inversion of the traditional links between sortition and popular republicanism on the one hand and ...
( Category: Constitutions July 10,2020 )
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin M. Kruse
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-07-28 | Author:Kevin M. Kruse [Kruse, Kevin M.]

PRIVATE SCHOOLS: SEGREGATION ACADEMIES AND RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS As whites abandoned public schools, private schools surfaced as an attractive alternative. In truth, white Atlantans’ movement toward private education had been underway ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism July 10,2020 )
Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things by Elizabeth R. DeSombre
epub |eng | 2018-07-15 | Author:Elizabeth R. DeSombre

GENESIS OF VALUES, ATTITUDES, AND IDENTITY Values, attitudes, and identity are generally formed early in life and tend to be stable over time.16 That makes them a tricky tool for ...
( Category: History & Theory July 9,2020 )
Dewey Defeats Truman by A. J. Baime
epub |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:A. J. Baime

* * * On the morning of September 17, the Truman Special crossed into enemy territory. Like most heavily agricultural states, Iowa was firmly Republican. The state had gone to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 9,2020 )
The Founders' Revolution: The Forgotten History & Principles of the Declaration of Independence by Michael S. Law
epub |eng | 2018-01-02 | Author:Michael S. Law [Law, Michael S.]

Chapter 5 The Charges: Abuses of War Power He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ...
( Category: History & Theory July 9,2020 )

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