The Dimensions of Liberty / / Oscar Handlin, Mary Handlin.

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• VerfasserIn: Handlin, Oscar,; Handlin, Mary,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1961
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)

Using the ability of the individual to take action as a working measure of the extent of liberty at any time, Oscar Handlin and Mary Handlin identify and describe numerous factors that have had an important effect on American freedom since colonial days. In defining the broad dimensions of the conception, they investigate, among other subjects, the significance of the idea that the state derived power from the consent of the governed, the early concept of the Commonwealth, the later one of police powers, the roles played by governmental institutions, churches, secret lodges, voluntary associations of all kinds, immigration, the professions, continuing social and physical mobility, and the growth of wealth.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. LIBERTY AND POWER -- II. THE PROCEDURES FOR THE EXERCISE OF POWER -- III. THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL POWER -- IV. THE ENDS OF THE USE OF POWER -- V. VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS -- VI. RESTRICTIVE ASSOCIATION -- VII. POWER AND THE WEALTH OF MEN -- VIII. QUESTIONS OF CHRONOLOGY AND CAUSE -- NOTES. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. INDEX -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX