Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Words remain in usage while their meanings change without our noticing.This is a particularly vexing problem when a word is intended to capture the central human value in United States history and continues to be the operative word in our social and political dialogues.The thesis developed in this project is that liberty, or freedom (the words are used interchangeably,) does not carry the same meaning today that it did for the founders.The founders' great experiment with liberty, one that would offer the most expansive freedom to v
Author: Heather Dudley
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2910600620