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Annotation Does Every Increase In The Power Of Government Entail A Loss Of Liberty For The People? James H. Read Examines How Four Key Founders--james Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, And Thomas Jefferson--wrestled With This Question During The First Two Decades Of The American Republic. Power Versus Liberty Reconstructs A Four-way Conversation--sometimes Respectful, Sometimes Shrill--that Touched On The Most Important Issues Facing The New Nation: The Constitution, The Bill Of Rights, Federal Authority Versus States' Rights, Freedom Of The Press, The Controversial Bank Of The United States, The Relation Between Nationalism And Democracy, And The Elusive Meaning Of The Consent Of The Governed.each Of The Men Whose Thought Read Considers Differed On These Key Questions. Jefferson Believed That Every Increase In The Power Of Government Came At The Expense Of Liberty: Energetic Governments, He Insisted, Are Always Oppressive. Madison Believed That This View Was Too Simple, That Liberty Can Be Threatened Either By Too Much Or Too Little Governmental Power. Hamilton And Wilson Likewise Rejected The Jeffersonian View Of Power And Liberty But Disagreed With Madison And With Each

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Author

Hamilton, Alexander;Jefferson, Thomas;Madison, James;Wilson, James;Read, James H.

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813924601

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Political Science