American political philosophy

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  Equality, Liberty’s Lost Twin

  A Short History of Ideas from Rousseau to Rawls

  What does equality actually mean — and why does it seem so hard to hold onto?

  Kenneth Lawing Penegar $21.95 – $31.95Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
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  Locke, Jefferson, and the Justices:

  Foundations and Failures of the US Government

  “This book is about American politics and law; it is also about the roots of the Contract with America. . . . A logical place to find the intent of the Founders is in Locke, [and] Stephens makes a contribution by highlighting this.

  George Stephens $21.95 – $28.95Price range: $21.95 through $28.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
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  Machiavelli in America

  Machiavelli maintained that the most powerful form of fraud was the appearance of religiosity, and he said that the successful prince must hold no art higher than that of war. Doesn’t that sound like today’s America?

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  Sacred, Mundane, Profane

  A Constitutional Perspective

  The Constitution of the United States provides an excellent study of the uncertain boundaries between political and religious life. Its authors, as they grappled with political architecture, grappled unavoidably also with spiritual ambiguity.

  Scott Rutledge $19.95 – $29.95Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
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  The Authentic Constitution

  An Originalist View of America's Legacy

  In 2008, Alan Keyes, a Republican presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000, described the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States in the following way: “The doctrine of unalienable rights is to…

  Arthur E. Palumbo, Jr. $23.95 – $33.95Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
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  The Political Spectrum

  The Rational Foundations of Liberty and Prosperity

  What values do we need to promote for the overall wellbeing of mankind? Is there a “correct” position on the political spectrum that we imagine spanning from the far left to the far right?

  Anthony C. Patton $21.95 – $31.95Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page