Books written by Thomas G. West
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The Political Theory of the American Founding
Thomas G. West. recreation have no clear connection to security of natural rights. That may explain why hardly any ... Court Justice William Paterson states in a 1795 case: “The constitution [of Pennsylvania] expressly declares that the ...
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Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
James Madison, Letter to Barry, 4 August 1822, in Mind of the Founder: Sources of the Political Thought Qf james Madison, ... Abraham Lincoln, letter to Henry Pierce and others, 6 April 1859, in Collected Works 4 Abraham Lincoln, ed.
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In the Mind's Eye: Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics, and the Rise of Visual Technologies
The Art of Scientific Investigation. New York: W. W. Norton. (Republished by Vintage, Random House, New York, 1990.) Blakeslee, Thomas R., 1980. The Right Brain: A New Understanding of the Unconscious Mind and Its Creative Powers.
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The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration: Principles and Challenges in America
Dinesh D'Souza , a naturalized American who was born in India , has remarked that it was easy for him to become an American , but that it would be impossible for a typical American to become a citizen of India .
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Rediscovering Political Economy
In this volume, Bradley C.S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy--an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories mutually inform each other.
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Thinking Like Einstein: Returning to Our Visual Roots with the Emerging Revolution in Computer Information Visualization
See James D. Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of DNA, foreword by Sir Lawrence Bragg (New York: Atheneum, 1968). 4. Cotswold Wardens and the Ramblers Association, Country Walks around Blockley (Gloucester, ...
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Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding
This is the third and final volume in the series on American political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West. The book addresses how the major themes...
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Modern America and the Legacy of Founding
This is the third and final volume in the series on American political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West.
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The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom
Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom Thomas G. West ... See Brendan McConville, These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey (Ithaca: Cornell ...
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In the Mind's Eye: Visual Thinkers, Gifted People with Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties, Computer Images, and the Ironies of...
This inspiring book profiles gifted individuals who used nontraditional methods in their work as it explodes many myths about conventional intelligence and charts new vistas for today's computer visualization technologies....
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Seeing What Others Cannot See: The Hidden Advantages of Visual Thinkers and Differently Wired Brains
This is an inspiring book that not only documents the achievements of people with various learning differences, but reveals their great potential -- especially in a new digital age where traditional clerical and academic skills are less and ...
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The American Founding and the Social Compact
As this volume so convincingly argues, an understanding of social compact theory is essential for understanding the Founders' ideas about human nature, government and politics.
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Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century
This volume looks to the roots of this departure in the political ideas of nineteenth-century America, where the first substantial challenges to the founders' thought arose.
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The Rise and Fall of Constitutional Government in America
The Rise and Fall of Constitutional Government in America
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Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
Compelling, accurate, closely reasoned, and entirely convincing.-- Forrest McDonald, University of Alabama
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Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
Because our understanding of the Founders so profoundly influences our opinion of contemporary America, this book explains why their views, and particularly the constitutional order they created, are still worthy of our highest respect.
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The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration: Principles and Challenges in America
The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration seeks to revive the issue of republican character in the current immigration debate and to elucidate the constitutional foundations of American citizenship.
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Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century
In this second volume in a trilogy, Pestritto and West examine the fate of the founders' principles in the nine teeth century, when these principles faced their first great challenges.