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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"American political thought."”.
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Ethics, Eugenics, and Public Education in Georgia (1910-1965)
… during the twentieth century, arguing that American political thought and the idea of a racial hierarchy were heavily influenced by eugenic ideology, which served as an "objective" justification for white hegemonic sociopolitical control. This approach to the subject challenges previous …
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Charles Mason and the Civil War : the Story of a Jacksonian in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
The Civil War period was an era of intense political emotions when many traditional allegiances were severed or strengthened. Since Jacksonian Democrats had dominated the political stage in America for many of the years preceding the war, their reactions to the growing tensions and war itself …
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Liberalism and the problem of colonial rule : three-stages in Anglo-American thought
… as the dominant authority within the global political order. Ideologically inspired conflicts in the first half of the twentieth century, Cold War tensions and the process of decolonization, however, resulted in a fundamental change in the nature of this power and global influence, and led to …
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What Enemy Hath Done This? The Death of the Fusion Movement and the Rise of Illiberal Conservatism
… sought to bring two competing schools of political thought, traditionalist conservatism and classical liberalism, into a coalition powerful enough to fight communism abroad and thwart progressivism at home. These two traditions are unlikely and unnatural allies, for they disagree on …
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The Politics of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction
… the traffic between U.S. literary culture and political philosophy, this thesis surveys works by a range of leading male contemporary American novelists alongside the recent resurgent interest in friendship as a political concept. Long exiled from serious political philosophy, friendship …
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A more perfect union : Joseph Story's synthesis of natural rights philosophy and the common law.
… a reading of the U.S. Constitution grounded in American social compact theory. In response, Story articulated a national conception of popular sovereignty that contextualized the American notion of consent through a synthesis of natural rights philosophy and the common law. Against arguments …
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Walter Lippmann's Search for a Sustainable Liberalism
… intellectual journey represents the journey of American liberalism in the 20th century: an attempted return from infatuation with the progressive ideals of inevitable historical development and scientific progress to the stability of human rights and freedom. America’s path to defining its brand …
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Institutionalizing class conflict : Gouverneur Morris on mediating class warfare through separation of powers.
… of the Constitution, was driven by a uniquely American political theory, which brought together aspects of the class-based mixed regime with strict separation of powers, but is not reducible to either of those doctrines. Morris thought that class warfare was an inevitable feature of politics, …
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Aldo Leopold's political thought : particularizing American environmental dialogue.
… conservationist Aldo Leopold as examples of American environmental political thought. I argue that studying Leopold's work can help Americans with differing perspectives on why and how to protect the environment debate productively by focusing on particular aspects of the human-nature …
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The politics of sovereignty : federalism in American political development
The development of American federalism is a story of contested sovereignty, and those contests are fundamentally shaped by the evolving structures, relationships, and understandings of the constitutional order. This dissertation seeks to show how the American federal system is both cause and effect …