Defending the Declaration
Title | Defending the Declaration PDF eBook |
Author | Gary T. Amos |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1994-07 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 9781887456050 |
After ten years of research and four years of writing, Dr. Gary Amos reveals that the evidence from primary sources is irrefutable: underlying the Declaration of Independence is a foundation of Biblical principles and Christian influence. The Bible and Christianity not deism and secularism were the most important influences on the framers. Amos laments that America\'s educational system denies or ignores almost all of this evidence; evidence he believes to be undeniable."
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Title | Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality PDF eBook |
Author | Danielle Allen |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2014-06-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0871408139 |
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians “A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.”—Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Kennedy).
What Is the Declaration of Independence?
Title | What Is the Declaration of Independence? PDF eBook |
Author | Michael C. Harris |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2016-05-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 044848692X |
Step back in time to the birth of the United States of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free! On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that would sever this country's ties with Britain and announce a new nation—The United States of America. Colonists were willing to risk their lives for freedom, and the Declaration of Independence made that official. Discover the true story of one of the most radical and uplifting documents in history and follow the action that fueled the Revolutionary War.
Contending for the Constitution
Title | Contending for the Constitution PDF eBook |
Author | Mark A. Beliles |
Publisher | Providence Foundation |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 1887456198 |
Contending for the Constitution is a companion volume to the popular work Defending the Declaration. As author Gary Amos did concerning the Declaration, Mark Beliles and Doug Anderson present their case that the Constitution is based on biblical principles and Christian influence. Using primary source evidence, the authors give an easy-reading history of the Constitutional Convention and the Founder's emphasis on religion being necessary for its success. They show how the spirit of the Constitution has greatly diminished today and issue a call for its defense. -- from the publisher.
Dying Declaration
Title | Dying Declaration PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Singer |
Publisher | Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2010-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1414341520 |
Thomas and Theresa Hammonds believe in tough love and old-fashioned discipline. They do not believe in doctors. When their controversial beliefs lead to personal tragedy, the Hammonds face heartbreaking loss, a crisis of faith—and a charge of negligent homicide by a relentless prosecutor. Defending Thomas and Theresa is freewheeling lawyer Charles Arnold. He believes in grace and mercy, but nothing in his colorful past has prepared him for the challenges of this shocking case, or for the dangerous conspiracy at its heart.
Defending the Republic
Title | Defending the Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Frohnen |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2022-10-07 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1949822249 |
In recent years, our constitutional order has increasingly come under attack as irredeemably undemocratic, racist, and oppressive. At the same time, it is increasingly obvious that politic practices in the United States have strayed very far from the founders’ designs and become deeply dysfunctional. The time is thus ripe for renewed reflection about the American political tradition. This volume reintroduces readers to the conservative tradition of political and constitutional discourse. It brings together prominent political scientists and legal scholars, all of whom were deeply influenced by the life and work of the eminent constitutional scholar George W. Carey. For over 40 years, Carey strove mightily to explain the nature and requirements of our political tradition. How it fostered meaningful, virtuous self-government, and how our constitutional tradition has been derailed by progressivist ideology. He is perhaps best known for his concept of “constitutional morality,” the understanding that our republican constitutional order can be sustained only by a combination of formal mechanisms (e.g., separation of powers) and unwritten norms (“standards of behavior”) that act to foster deliberation and consensus, as well as keep political actors within the boundaries of their constitutional offices. Contributors, including Francis Canavan, Claes G. Ryn, Paul Edward Gottfried, and Peter Augustine Lawler, discuss and develop Carey’s key insights, applying them to issues from the nature of majoritarian government to the purposes of constitutionalism to the decline of virtue that has accompanied the expansion of power among national and international elites. Each essay provides penetrating analysis of key aspects of our tradition, its inherent purposes, growth, and subsequent derailment, as well as the resources remaining within that tradition for the rebuilding of our constitutional order and a decent common life.
Rescuing the Declaration of Independence
Title | Rescuing the Declaration of Independence PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Crowley Redding |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | JUVENILE NONFICTION |
ISBN | 9780062740328 |
Today the Declaration of Independence is one of the United States' most heavily guarded treasures, but during the War of 1812 it would have been destroyed if not for one man whose story has nearly been forgotten by time.