Liberty and American experience in the eighteenth century / Edited and with an introduction by David Womersley.

Indianapolis, IN : Liberty Fund Inc., 2006.

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Liberty.

Constitutional history -- United States.

Civil rights -- United States -- History.

"Of liberty and the colonies": a case study of constitutional conflict in the mid-eighteenth-century British American empire / Jack P Greene

The dialectic of liberty: law and religion in revolutionary America / Robert A Ferguson

Religious conscience and original sin: an exploration of America's Protestant foundations / Barry Shain

Liberty, metaphor, and mechanism: "checks and balances" and the origins of modern constitutionalism / David Wootton

Moral sense theory and the appeal to natural rights in the American founding / R G Frey

"Riches valuable at all times and to all men": Hume and the eighteenth-century debate on commerce and liberty / John W Danford

Scottish thought and the American revolution: Adam Ferguson's response to Richard Price / Ronald Hamowy

Federalism, constitutionalism, and republican liberty: the first constructions of the constitution / Lance Banning

"Is there a James Madison problem"? / Gordon S Wood.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0865976295

xi, 472 p.