Rediscovering Americanism

And the Tyranny of Progressivism

Mark R. Levin

• Editorial: Threshold Editions
• Año: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781476773476
• Categoría: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Categoría: Conservadurismo y liberalismo

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America's most sacred values. In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders' warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes that the men who created our country would be outraged and disappointed to see where we've ended up.Levin returns to the impassioned question he's explored in each of his bestselling books: How do we save our exceptional country? Because our values are in such a precarious state, he argues that a restoration to the essential truths on which our country was founded has never been more urgent. Understanding these principles, in Levin's words, can "serve as the antidote to tyrannical regimes and governments." Rediscovering Americanism is not an exercise in nostalgia, but an appeal to his fellow citizens to reverse course.This essential book brings Levin's celebrated, sophisticated analysis to the troubling question of America's future, and reminds us what we must restore for the sake of our children and our children's children.

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1. Americanism

1. Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (New York: Threshold Editions, 2003), 193.

2. Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to Roger Weightman,” June 24, 1826, Library of Congress, loc.gov/exhibits/Jefferson/214.html (March 1, 2017).

3. Declaration of Independence, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript (March 1, 2017).

4. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, America’s Founding Documents, National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/virginia-declaration-of-rights (March 1, 2017).

5. Constitution of Pennsylvania, A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth or State of Pennsylvania, Avalon Project, Yale Law School, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/pa08.asp (March 1, 2017).

6. Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, Part the First. A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/Founders/print_documents/bill_of_rightss6.html (March 1, 2017).

7. Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to Henry Lee,” May 8, 1825, Founders Online, National Archives, http://Founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-5212 (March 1, 2017).

8. Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), 27.

9. John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004), ch. 2, sec. 6.

10. John Locke, Essays on the Law of Nature, ed. W. von Leyden (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 113.

11. Ibid., 115.

12. Ibid., 121.

13. Ibid., 113, quoting Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. H. Rackham (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1943), 20.

14. Shirley Robin Letwin, On the History of the Idea of Law, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 28, quoting Aristotle, Rhetoric I, 1373b, in The Complete Works of Aristotle, ed. Jonathan Barnes, vol. 2 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984).

15. Marcus Tullius Cicero, On the Republic, On the Laws, I, xvi, ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Clinton W. Keyes (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 345, 347; see ibid., I, x, xv, xvii.

16. Letwin, On the History of the Idea of Law, quoting Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Republica, III, xxii, ed. T. E. Page, trans. Clinton W. Keyes (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928), 33; Cicero, On the Laws, III, xxii, 211.

17. Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government, ed. Thomas West (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Classics, 1990), v.

18. Ibid., 8, 32, 17.

19. Ibid., 192, 193.

20. John Locke, Of Ethics in General, in Peter King, Life and Letters of John Locke (London: George Bell & Sons, 1864), 311–12.

21. Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, &c, Feb. 23, 1775, Founders Online, National Archives, http://Founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-0057 (March 1, 2017).

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