Table of Contents:
“…Politics, society, and the individual in the Jacksonian era -- The emergence of individualism -- The politics of individualism -- The Jacksonian world -- Victims and victimizers -- The fettered and the free -- Outsiders and insiders -- The need for reassurance -- The search for understanding -- The roots of policy -- The Whig world -- The sense of confidence -- The problem of self-control -- Individualism and interdependence -- The need for reassurance -- The search for understanding -- The roots of policy -- Private and public : the individual and society -- Private and public -- The efficacy of public action -- The purity of public action -- Unity and union -- Public order : the individual and the
rule of law -- Coercion vs. voluntarism -- Personal will and the
rule of law -- Higher law and the
rule of law -- The Constitution -- Economic inequality : the individual and the social hierarchy -- The creation of wealth -- The distribution of wealth -- The consequences of economic inequality -- The appeal of economic argument.…”
Call Number: JK2260 .K65 1991
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