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American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought before 1870
from Part I - Truths (and Methods)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2023
Summary
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” Thomas Paine famously exulted in “Common Sense” (1776), the best known of the pamphlets of the American Revolution. “A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand ….”1
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- The Turn to ProcessAmerican Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870–1970, pp. 35 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023