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... Political Science Association " Political Liberty Today , " by T. V. Smith , in The American Political Science Review . American Psychological Association " The Principles and Traits of Leadership , " by Cecil A. Gibb , in Journal of ...
... Political Science Association " Political Liberty Today , " by T. V. Smith , in The American Political Science Review . American Psychological Association " The Principles and Traits of Leadership , " by Cecil A. Gibb , in Journal of ...
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... Political Heritage , by William Y. Elliott and Nell A. McDonald . 1949 by Prentice - Hall , Inc. Public Affairs ... Politics , by Harold J. Laski . An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law , by Roscoe Pound . The Records of the Federal ...
... Political Heritage , by William Y. Elliott and Nell A. McDonald . 1949 by Prentice - Hall , Inc. Public Affairs ... Politics , by Harold J. Laski . An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law , by Roscoe Pound . The Records of the Federal ...
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... ( 6 ) Law and Order . The readings include quotations from historical documents , the writ- ings of political philosophers and statesmen , and the accounts of scholars and observers . The struggle to be free is a war of conflicting.
... ( 6 ) Law and Order . The readings include quotations from historical documents , the writ- ings of political philosophers and statesmen , and the accounts of scholars and observers . The struggle to be free is a war of conflicting.
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... political and social systems , and form the primary issues of the latter twentieth century . Indeed , these ideas or concepts serve as the very foundations of each system . Some of these concepts are of ancient origin . Others have a ...
... political and social systems , and form the primary issues of the latter twentieth century . Indeed , these ideas or concepts serve as the very foundations of each system . Some of these concepts are of ancient origin . Others have a ...
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... political philosophers in the seventeenth century made liberty the basis of their explanation for the origin of government . Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , and later Rousseau theorized that men first lived in a state of nature in which ...
... political philosophers in the seventeenth century made liberty the basis of their explanation for the origin of government . Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , and later Rousseau theorized that men first lived in a state of nature in which ...
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Page 59 - establishment of religion' clause of the First Amendment means at least this : Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another.
Page 55 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 100 - No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.
Page 105 - If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
Page 39 - The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will and shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections, which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Page 59 - THAT NO MAN SHALL BE COMPELLED to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever...
Page 22 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and From The Dialogues of Plato, tr.
Page 58 - As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion, and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community but by the institution of the public worship of GOD, and of public instructions in piety, religion, and morality...
Page 64 - State, exerted within the limits of those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions...
Page 55 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.