The Palace of Crystal: A World Without WarWar has blighted the security and happiness of humanity from time immemorial, but when two hundred years ago the colonies in North America broke away from British rule and established the United States, it was seen as a hopeful promise for the peoples of the world. A new democracy had been launched wherein all (or at least, the majority) were deemed to be created equal in respect of their rights, and were citizens and not subjects, in a land of self-confident individualism, which was not only free of the hereditary-based authoritarianism of the Old World, but more significantly, seemed destined to live at peace with the great nation states beyond their frontiers. It was a nation where government was minimised to ensure freedom in the spheres of commerce, religion, and private life, but the ideals of universal concord were not so easily to be achieved by either the efforts of this new people, or by the world at large. |
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... considered that America had experienced not a revolution , but a counter - revolution : conquest and tyranny had centuries earlier dispossessed men of their natural rights , which were now restored and guaranteed by the elected ...
... considered that America had experienced not a revolution , but a counter - revolution : conquest and tyranny had centuries earlier dispossessed men of their natural rights , which were now restored and guaranteed by the elected ...
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... considered extremely important . An elected government was no automatic guarantor of rights that should be expected under a democracy , but must itself be subject to the constraints of a clear set of guiding rules . A constitution ...
... considered extremely important . An elected government was no automatic guarantor of rights that should be expected under a democracy , but must itself be subject to the constraints of a clear set of guiding rules . A constitution ...
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... considered the government of his own country to be a just model . He may have been the first man on record to be jailed for non - payment of tax , openly and specifically withheld so that he would not feel to have helped to finance what ...
... considered the government of his own country to be a just model . He may have been the first man on record to be jailed for non - payment of tax , openly and specifically withheld so that he would not feel to have helped to finance what ...
Contents
Consequences | 9 |
Chapter Two The Changing face of War | 17 |
Chapter Three Stony Ground | 29 |
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