Title: Devising liberty
Description: The nine chapters in this book focus on the various constitutional problems surrounding the need to provide simultaneously a sufficient degree of union and public authority to guarantee defense and order, and a sufficient degree of individual liberty to satisfy the demands and expectations of private citizens who were wary of the arbitrary powers of government.
Subjects: Politics and government, Economic policy, Civil rights, Social policy, History, Civil rights, united states, United states, politics and government, 1789-1815, United states, economic policy, United states, social policy
Places: United States
Time periods: 1789-1815, To 1933