Of the People, by the People, for the People and Other Quotations from Abraham Lincoln - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of the People, by the People, for the People and Other Quotations from Abraham Lincoln write by Abraham Lincoln. This book was released on 1996. Of the People, by the People, for the People and Other Quotations from Abraham Lincoln available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. -- Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Lincoln Herald
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gettysburg Address write by Abraham Lincoln. This book was released on 2022-11-29. The Gettysburg Address available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Democracy by the People
Democracy by the People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy by the People write by Timothy K. Kuhner. This book was released on 2018-11-29. Democracy by the People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system.
I Am the People
I Am the People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Am the People write by Partha Chatterjee. This book was released on 2019-12-17. I Am the People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The forms of liberal government that emerged after World War II are in the midst of a profound crisis. In I Am the People, Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for “the people.” To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfare state and neoliberal reforms. Mobilizing ideals of popular sovereignty and the emotional appeal of nationalism, anticolonial movements ushered in a world of nation-states while liberal democracies in Europe guaranteed social rights to their citizens. But as neoliberal techniques shrank the scope of government, politics gave way to technical administration by experts. Once the state could no longer claim an emotional bond with the people, the ruling bloc lost the consent of the governed. To fill the void, a proliferation of populist leaders have mobilized disaffected groups into a battle that they define as the authentic people against entrenched oligarchy. Once politics enters a spiral of competitive populism, Chatterjee cautions, there is no easy return to pristine liberalism. Only a counter-hegemonic social force that challenges global capital and facilitates the equal participation of all peoples in democratic governance can achieve significant transformation. Drawing on thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, and Ernesto Laclau and with a particular focus on the history of populism in India, I Am the People is a sweeping, theoretically rich account of the origins of today’s tempests.
The Will of the People
The Will of the People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Will of the People write by Barry Friedman. This book was released on 2009-09-29. The Will of the People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, the justices of the Supreme Court have ruled definitively on such issues as abortion, school prayer, and military tribunals in the war on terror. They decided one of American history's most contested presidential elections. Yet for all their power, the justices never face election and hold their offices for life. This combination of influence and apparent unaccountability has led many to complain that there is something illegitimate—even undemocratic—about judicial authority. In The Will of the People, Barry Friedman challenges that claim by showing that the Court has always been subject to a higher power: the American public. Judicial positions have been abolished, the justices' jurisdiction has been stripped, the Court has been packed, and unpopular decisions have been defied. For at least the past sixty years, the justices have made sure that their decisions do not stray too far from public opinion. Friedman's pathbreaking account of the relationship between popular opinion and the Supreme Court—from the Declaration of Independence to the end of the Rehnquist court in 2005—details how the American people came to accept their most controversial institution and shaped the meaning of the Constitution.
