Exemplar of liberty : native America and the evolution of democracy / by Donald A. Grinde, Jr., and Bruce E. Johansen ; original artwork by John Kahionhes Fadden ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Exemplar of liberty : native America and the evolution of democracy / by Donald A. Grinde, Jr., and Bruce E. Johansen ; original artwork by John Kahionhes Fadden ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Los Angeles, California : American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, ©1991.

xxv, 320 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Native American politics series ; no. 3.

We attempt to trace both ideas and the events that dramatized them: life, liberty, and happiness (Declaration of Independence); government by reason and consent rather than coercion (Albany Plan and Articles of Confederation); religious toleration (and ultimately religious acceptance) instead of a state church; checks and balances; federalism (United States Constitution); and relative equality of property, equal rights before the law, and the thorny problem of creating a government that can rule equitably across a broad geographic expanse (Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution). Native America had a substantial role in shaping these ideas, as well as the events that turned the colonies into a nation of states.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-310) and index.

Online version: Grinde, Donald A., 1946- Exemplar of liberty. Los Angeles, Calif. : American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, ©1991

KIE140 .G75 1991

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