The Pursuit of Equality in American History
β Scribed by J. R Pole
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 399
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
β’ J. R. POLE β’
Contents
Preface
1 The Idea of Equality in a Hostile World
2 The Meanings of a Self-Evident Truth
3 Religion and Conscience: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?
4 The Emergence of Religious Pluralism
5 The Constitutional Aegis and the Emergence of Individualism
6 Equality and Political Community: Who Are the People of the United States?
7 More Separate than Equal
8 Opportunity, Race and the Concept of Pluralism
9 Remaking the Constitutional Environment
10 Sex: Where Equality Is Not Identity
11 An Incomplete Revolution
Index
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