TY - BOOK AU - Womersley,David ED - Liberty Fund. TI - Liberty and American experience in the eighteenth century SN - 0865976295 AV - JC585 .L424 2006 U1 - 323.440973/09033 22 PY - 0000/// CY - Indianapolis PB - Liberty Fund KW - Liberty KW - Civil rights KW - United States KW - History KW - 18th century KW - fast KW - Freiheit KW - gnd KW - USA KW - swd N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; "Of liberty and colonies" : a case study of constitutional conflict in the mid-eighteenth-century British American empire / Jack P. Greene -- The dialectic of liberty : law and religion in revolutionary America / Robert A. Ferguson -- Religious conscience and original sin : an exploitation of America's Protestant foundations / Barry Shain -- Liberty, metaphor, and mechanism : "checks and balances" and the origins of modern constitutionalism / David Wootton -- Moral sense theory and the appeal to natural rights in the American founding / R.G. Frey -- "Riches valuable at all times and to all men" : Hume and the eighteenth-century debate on commerce and liberty / John W. Danford -- Scottish thought and the American revolution : Adam Ferguson's response to Richard Price / Ronald Hamowy -- Federalism, constitutionalism, and republican liberty : the first constructions of the constitution / Lance Banning -- Is there a "James Madison problem"? / Gordon S. Wood N2 - "Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century presents new essays on central themes of the American Founding period by some of today's preeminent scholars of American history." "In ten essays, these writers explore various specific aspects of the zeitgeist, among them Burke's theories on property rights and government, the relations between religious and legal understandings of liberty, the significance of Protestant beliefs on the founding, the economic background to the Founders' thought on governance, moral sense theory contrasted with natural rights, and divisions of thought on the nature of liberty and how it was to be preserved."--Jacket UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip064/2005034720.html ER -