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The Godless Constitution

A Moral Defense of the Secular State

By: Isaac Kramnick,Robert Laurence Moore

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The Godless Constitution

A Moral Defense of the Secular State

By: Isaac Kramnick,Robert Laurence Moore

Refutes the claims of the religious right that America was founded as a Christian nation, and emphasizes that separation of church and state was designed to guarantee religious freedom, in a volume updated with a new chapter exploring the role of religion in public life in George W. Bush's America. Reprint.

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0393328376

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9780393328370

The Godless Constitution

The Case Against Religious Correctness

By: Isaac Kramnick,Robert Laurence Moore,R. Laurence Moore

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The Godless Constitution

The Case Against Religious Correctness

By: Isaac Kramnick,Robert Laurence Moore,R. Laurence Moore

The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the country's founders. The authors, both distinguished scholars, revisit the historical roots of American religious freedom, paying particular attention to such figures as John Locke, Roger Williams, and especially Thomas Jefferson, and examine the controversies, up to the present day, over the proper place of religion in our political life. With a new chapter that explores the role of religion in the public life of George W. Bush's America, The Godless Constitution offers a bracing return to the first principles of American governance.

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039331524X

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9780393315240

Cornell

A History, 1940–2015

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Isaac Kramnick

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Cornell

A History, 1940–2015

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Isaac Kramnick

In their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the modern research university. The book examines Cornell during the Cold War, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, antiapartheid protests, the ups and downs of varsity athletics, the women's movement, the opening of relations with China, and the creation of Cornell NYC Tech. It relates profound, fascinating, and little-known incidents involving the faculty, administration, and student life, connecting them to the "Cornell idea" of freedom and responsibility. The authors had access to all existing papers of the presidents of Cornell, which deeply informs their respectful but unvarnished portrait of the university. Institutions, like individuals, develop narratives about themselves. Cornell constructed its sense of self, of how it was special and different, on the eve of World War II, when America defended democracy from fascist dictatorship. Cornell’s fifth president, Edmund Ezra Day, and Carl Becker, its preeminent historian, discerned what they called a Cornell "soul," a Cornell "character," a Cornell "personality," a Cornell "tradition"—and they called it "freedom." "The Cornell idea" was tested and contested in Cornell’s second seventy-five years. Cornellians used the ideals of freedom and responsibility as weapons for change—and justifications for retaining the status quo; to protect academic freedom—and to rein in radical professors; to end in loco parentis and parietal rules, to preempt panty raids, pornography, and pot parties, and to reintroduce regulations to protect and promote the physical and emotional well-being of students; to add nanofabrication, entrepreneurship, and genomics to the curriculum—and to require language courses, freshmen writing, and physical education. In the name of freedom (and responsibility), black students occupied Willard Straight Hall, the anti–Vietnam War SDS took over the Engineering Library, proponents of divestment from South Africa built campus shantytowns, and Latinos seized Day Hall. In the name of responsibility (and freedom), the university reclaimed them. The history of Cornell since World War II, Altschuler and Kramnick believe, is in large part a set of variations on the narrative of freedom and its partner, responsibility, the obligation to others and to one’s self to do what is right and useful, with a principled commitment to the Cornell community—and to the world outside the Eddy Street gate.

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Cornell University Press

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0801471885

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9780801471889

Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life

By: Isaac Kramnick,R. Laurence Moore

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Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life

By: Isaac Kramnick,R. Laurence Moore

“Illuminating.” —Phil Zuckerman, author of Living the Secular Life If the First Amendment protects the separation of church and state, why have atheists had to fight for their rights? In this valuable work, R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick reveal the fascinating history of atheism in America and the legal challenges to federal and state laws that made atheists second-class citizens.

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240

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0393254976

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9780393254976

Bolingbroke and His Circle

The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole

By: Isaac Kramnick

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Bolingbroke and His Circle

The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole

By: Isaac Kramnick

Behind this study lie two questions. Why is Bolingbroke, known primarily as a rationalist philosopher of the Enlightenment, so worshipped by English conservatives who are themselves, since Burke, so set against what the Enlightenment represents in political, social, and religious thought? The second question relates to Bolingbroke's public life. How does one explain the intense animosity between Bolingbroke and Walpole which provides the energy for English political life between 1725 and 1740? Is it mere vindictiveness, ambition, jealousy, or the inevitable reflex of the 'outsider' against the 'insider'? Or is it, as the late Victorian writers thought, their falling out at Eton which forever fated them to be protagonists?"—from the Preface.

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Cornell University Press

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1501731793

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The Godless Constitution

The Case Against Religious Correctness

By: Isaac Kramnick,Robert Laurence Moore,R. Laurence Moore

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The Case Against Religious Correctness

By: Isaac Kramnick,Robert Laurence Moore,R. Laurence Moore

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Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism

Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and America

By: Isaac Kramnick

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Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism

Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and America

By: Isaac Kramnick

With this book Isaac Kramnick adds a strong voice to the lively debate about the nature of political ideology in eighteenth-century England and America. Whereas the now-dominant "republican thesis" sees liberal ideology as virtually irrelevant in an age of civic commitment to a moral public order, Kramnick makes a strong case for a thriving liberalism in the Anglo-American world at the time of the American and French revolutions. In his view, both ideologies flourished during this period, and it is unwise to see one as the exclusive paradigm in which eighteenth-century political discourse took place. In short, he proposes to the republican school a scholarly truce.

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1501745980

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The Courts of International Trade

Judicial Specialization, Expertise, and Bureaucratic Policy-making

By: Isaac Unah

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The Courts of International Trade

Judicial Specialization, Expertise, and Bureaucratic Policy-making

By: Isaac Unah

Focuses on the Court of International Trade to illuminate the important role of specialized courts in critical areas of law

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University of Michigan Press

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0472109227

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9780472109227

Bolingbroke and His Circle

The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole

By: Isaac Kramnick

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The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole

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Cornell

A History, 1940–2015

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,Isaac Kramnick

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A History, 1940–2015

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