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A History of the American People

A History of the American People

A History of the American People

Author:
Paul Johnson
Genre:
History
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Part 11
Update:
08-15-2023

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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter Five of John Locke"s Second Treatise on Government, which set out the virtues of a meritocracy, in which men rise by virtue, talent, and industry. Locke argued that the acquisition of wealth, even on a large scale, was neither unjust nor morally wrong, provided it was fairly acquired. So, he said, society is necessarily stratified, but by merit, not by birth. This doctrine of industry as opposed to idleness as the determining factor in a just society militated strongly against kings, against governments of n.o.bles and their placemen, and in favor of representative republicanism.
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Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 25 of Mark Twain"s Roughing It-which describes the system from bitter experience-will know. At all events the slavers swept the polls, expelled from the legislature the few antislavers who were elected, adopted a drastic slave-code, and made it a capital offense to help a slave escape or aid a fugitive. They even made orally questioning the legality of slavery a felony.
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