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The dimensions of liberty
- Title
- The dimensions of liberty [by] Oscar and Mary Handlin.
- Author
- Handlin, Oscar, 1915-2011.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | JC599.U5 H26 1961 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Handlin, Mary Flug, 1913-1976.
- Description
- 204 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- What has liberty actually meant in the life of Americans in the past. Present nine propositions or hypotheses: Liberty has meant not the negation but the proper use of power; Power was to be organized and exercised within defined procedures; There were limits beyond which power ought not to be used; Power might be used for some ends but not for others; Important spheres of social action were to be left in the U.S. to voluntary associations without the capacity for coercion; These might not however act in a conspiratorial fashion; Power might be used to increase wealth of the nation because just modes of distribution assured the equal access of all to it; The Social structure of the U.S. encouraged social mobility; Efforts in the past to restrict the scope of mobility have not been successful.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Liberty and Power -- The Procedures for the Exercise of Power -- The Limits of Political Power -- The Ends of the Use of Power -- Voluntary Associations -- Restrictive Associations -- Power and the Wealth of Men -- Questions of Chronology and Cause.
- ISBN
- 0674207505
- 9780674207509
- 9780674182622
- 0674182626
- LCCN
- 61016694
- 10.4159/harvard.9780674182622
- OCLC
- ocm00233220
- 233220
- SCSB-139248
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library