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  2. Letters from an American Farmer - Wikipedia

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    Letters from an American Farmer is a series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, first published in 1782.The considerably longer title under which it was originally published is Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior ...

  3. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur - Wikipedia

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    Guy Wilson Allen and Roger Asselineau, An American Farmer: The Life of St. John de Crevecoeur, New York: Viking Penguin, 1987; J. Hector St. John. de Crevecoeur, Letters From an American Farmer and Other Essays edited by Dennis D. Moore (Harvard University Press; 2012) 372 pages; combines an edition of the famous 1782 work and his other writings

  4. Federalist No. 47 - Wikipedia

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    Federalist No. 47 is the forty-seventh paper from The Federalist Papers.It was first published by The New York Packet on January 30, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist Papers were published, but its actual author was James Madison.

  5. Books of authority - Wikipedia

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    Books of authority is a term used by legal writers to refer to a number of early legal textbooks that are excepted from the rule that textbooks (and all books other than statute or law report) are not treated as authorities by the courts of England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions.

  6. Anti-Federalist Papers - Wikipedia

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    Anti-Federalist Papers is the collective name given to the works written by the Founding Fathers who were opposed to, or concerned with, the merits of the United States Constitution of 1787.

  7. Studies in Classic American Literature - Wikipedia

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    Studies in Classic American Literature is a work of literary criticism by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It was first published by Thomas Seltzer in the United States in August 1923. The British edition was published in June 1924 by Martin Secker .

  8. Limited government - Wikipedia

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    When limited government is put into practice it often involves the protection of individual liberty from government intrusion. [ 5 ] According to The World Justice Project [ 6 ] Rule of Law Index [ 7 ] which measures adherence to the rule of law in 140 countries and jurisdictions around the globe, checks on government powers eroded in 58% of ...

  9. The Spirit of Law - Wikipedia

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    The Spirit of Law (French: De l'esprit des lois, originally spelled De l'esprit des loix [1]), also known in English as The Spirit of [the] Laws, is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law by Montesquieu, published in 1748. [2]