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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"founding fathers"”.
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Monstrous mothers and founding fathers: Kristevan maternality in Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle
The role of the mother, her potential failure to be good enough, the structure and performance of family, neglect, and family value and performance have become critical issues in social research and adult fiction in the middle of the twentieth century. These adult preoccupations are to be found in …
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The Missing Founding Fathers: The Need to Teach the Role of the Antifederalists in the Adoption of the Bill of Rights
This thesis examines the need to place more emphasis on teaching the role of the Antifederalists in the 1787-88 debate over the adoption of the U.S. Constitution to high school history and government students. The cited research shows the Antifederalist role is now underemphasized in high school …
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The Iroquois Influence Thesis and the "Great Debate".
… Thesis existence. Related statements by the Founding Fathers, an examination of the Cornell Conference on the issue, and points of contention debated by scholars are also conducted.</p> <p>The author used on-line sources, books and scholarly articles fundamental to the Iroquois Influence …
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Lincoln: Reformer or Revolutionary? An Analysis of Lincoln's Legacy as Compared to the Political Ideals of the Amerian Revolution
… coveted the political ideals espoused by the Founding Fathers. As president, Lincoln inherited the unprecedented challenges that resulted from decades of politicians tabling the insoluble problem of slavery. He operated within the realms of constitutionally allocated authority to meet those …
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LITERATURE AND THE DEFINITION OF AN AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY: 1763--1828
… with democracy and nationalism, the Founding Fathers believed that enlightenment values should mold the identity and character of the new nation. This view emphasized a civic humanism, or classical republicanism, based on reason, virtue, duty, and social responsibility. Individual …
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John Adams and Unitarian Theology
… of Unitarianism and the religious context of the Founding Fathers, and it analyzes relevant historiography on Adams's theological system, arguing against terms such as "Christian Deist" and "Theistic Rationalist." Then, the thesis suggests possible applications for Adams's religion, particularly …
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Madison, Hamilton, and Reagan: The Limits of Executive Power in Foreign Policy and the Reagan Intervention in Nicaragua
… balance and one that has been debated since the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. The debate has gotten no less intense and no less crucial in the modern, nuclear age, and it remains unresolved. The Reagan administration's foray into Nicaragua during the 1980's and its …
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Drawing borders: the political and symbolic importance of the United States in the creation of Czechoslovakia
… these three themes help explain the dual founding fathers myth of Czechoslovakia of Wilson and Masaryk, as well as the importance of this relationship in the present.
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Comfort factors, moral fantasy and social criticism in formulaic fiction : a study of literary formulas with particular reference to the 'hard-boiled' detective story
… into popular film and television drama. Its founding fathers are normally deemed to be Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald. A study of their works should provide a valuable insight into the structure of their patterns and how they are made to work to the public's …
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The Boston Federal Courthouse : institutional places and the national face
… of origin (identified by such terms as "the founding fathers") as well as from the Western traditions which the "fathers" are said to have improved upon. This thesis explores the possibility of an architecture that seeks to more accurately communicate the invented and evolving nature of the …
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Presidential Power, Historical Practice, and Constraints
America's founding fathers designed the Constitution as a malleable contract for governance, envisioning a republic with a struggle among co-equal actors that would serve to constrain and channel the struggle for power. The problem this study was designed to address is that presidents have used …
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Liberia: Postwar, Not Yet Postcolonial
… locate themselves in relationship to Liberia?s founding dilemma: the tension between the Americo-Liberian minority (Liberian-born descendents of the country?s African American ?founding fathers?), and the indigenous Liberian majority. This project primarily addresses the 2005 Liberian …
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A history of the Association of State Executives and the career paths of state execs
… with selected members of the association: founding fathers, past and present officers, committee chairs, committee members, and new members. A questionnaire was sent to all state executives to elicit career path information. The research contributes to the general field of knowledge of …
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Unity Concert Hall: A Monument of Stillness, a Vessel for Harmony
… intermediaries. Drawing inspiration from the Founding Fathers, who despite differing beliefs prioritized the nation's future, this project envisions a place rooted in shared respect and unity. The design centers on a site adjacent to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), strategically …
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Twilight of the Republic: Security Competition and the American Experience
… at home that goes against the tide of the Founding Fathers. Such a strategy also means that liberty is unnecessarily restricted in an effort to allay that government’s security concerns. To secure America and reestablish its values, Washington should employ a grand strategy of offshore …
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Keeping True to the Cathedral Within: A Case Study of Wheaton Academy and the Initiation, Development, and Fulfillment of Its Christian Saga of Social Justice
… to what extent it has been able to maintain its founding fathers' Christian vision of social justice. Robert Benne's framework, focused on Vision, Ethos, and People as detailed in Quality with Soul, provides a useful lens to organize the study through three phases of the life of the school's …
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The language of family therapy : what we say we do and what we actually do in therapy
… the second half of the twentieth century. Its founding fathers and mothers made a conceptual break with psychoanalysis, and this theoretical distinction has until recently been well established. Contemporary theorists have shown an interest in narrative metaphors and sought to situate systemic …
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South African social theory : Steve Biko
… that Comte, Marx, Durkheim and Weber were the founding fathers of sociology. I consider the contributions of Ntsikana, Tiyo Soga, Anton Lembede, Pixley Seme and finally Steve Biko as a means of demonstrating the potential local intellectual to inform a new social theory The nature of this …
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Rhetoric and reality in American political pluralism : Jackson-Calhoun controversy in perspective
… the political philosophies promulgated by the founding fathers, that this research turns to gain an insight into how "factions" are channeled and controlled in the United States -- to gain insight into basic pluralistic political patterns of the United States.</p>
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