Exemplar of Liberty

Exemplar of Liberty
Author: Donald A. Grinde
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1991
Genre: History
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"We attempt to trace both ideas and the events that dramatized them: life, liberty, and happiness (Declaration of Independence); government by reason and consent rather than coercion (Albany Plan and Articles of Confederation); religious toleration (and ultimately religious acceptance) instead of a state church; checks and balances; federalism (United States Constitution); and relative equality of property, equal rights before the law, and the thorny problem of creating a government that can rule equitably across a broad geographic expanse (Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution). Native America had a substantial role in shaping these ideas, as well as the events that turned the colonies into a nation of states.


Exemplar of Liberty
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: Donald A. Grinde
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles

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Pages: 302
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Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Donald A. Grinde, Jr.
Categories: Nature
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This book is not only a work of history, it makes history.... We desperately need to hear this story if we are to save the earth, the sky, the water, the air --