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The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders' Case for an Activist Government

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"From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country's political parties: should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of American citizens? The Declaration of Independence has long been invoked as a philosophical treatise in favor of limited government. Yet the bulk of the document is a discussion of policy, in which the founders outlined the failures of the British imperial government. Above all, they declared, the British state since 1760 had done too little to ...

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The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders' Case for an Activist Government 2018, Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 9780300234626

Trade paperback

The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders' Case for an Activist Government 2016, Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 9780300216189

Hardcover