The Democracy Reader: Classic and Modern Speeches, Essays, Poems, Declarations, and Documents on Freedom and Human Rights WorldwideDiane Ravitch, Abigail M. Thernstrom HarperCollins, 1992 - 331 páginas The author of The American Reader presents a uniquely readable anthology of the writings and thoughts--from Locke, Plato, Rushdie, King, Jefferson, and others--that have shaped this country and had a profound effect on the world and people everywhere. Illustrated throughout. |
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... AMERICA No book has ever offered as many penetrating insights into the character of American democracy and the nature of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville's two - volume classic Democracy in America . Tocqueville ( 1805–1859 ) was ...
... AMERICA No book has ever offered as many penetrating insights into the character of American democracy and the nature of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville's two - volume classic Democracy in America . Tocqueville ( 1805–1859 ) was ...
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... American society , he nonetheless found no lack of political activity . Indeed , he found politics in America to be pervasive , to the point at which it was virtually the only topic of conversation . Without it , he says , Americans ...
... American society , he nonetheless found no lack of political activity . Indeed , he found politics in America to be pervasive , to the point at which it was virtually the only topic of conversation . Without it , he says , Americans ...
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... American way of life . For these are the strategic freedoms ; they enable us to win new freedoms and check the excesses of the old . So long as they prevail , mod- ifications of and restrictions on other freedoms are reversible . Where ...
... American way of life . For these are the strategic freedoms ; they enable us to win new freedoms and check the excesses of the old . So long as they prevail , mod- ifications of and restrictions on other freedoms are reversible . Where ...
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Massachusetts Body of Liberties | 99 |
Virginia Bill of Rights | 105 |
The Constitution of the United States of America | 111 |
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