Two Tracts on Civil Liberty

About this eBook

Author

Price, Richard, 1723-1791

Title

Two Tracts on Civil Liberty, the War with America, and the Debts and Finances of the Kingdom With a General Introduction and Supplement

Credits

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

E201: History: America: Revolution (1775-1783)

Subject

Finance, Public -- France -- History -- To 1789

Category

Text

eBook-No.

57970

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57970

Release Date

September 24, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TWO TRACTS ON CIVIL LIBERTY
2. 2.General Introduction. — Account of the Customs for the last Six Years. — FIRST ADVERTISEMENT. — SECOND ADVERTISEMENT. — FOOTNOTES
3. 3.PREFACE TO The FIRST EDITION.
4. 4.PREFACE TO The FIFTH EDITION.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.OBSERVATIONS, &c. — SECT. I. Of the Nature of Liberty in General. — SECT. II. Of Civil Liberty and the Principles of Government. — SECT. III. Of the Authority of one Country over another.
7. 7.PART II. — SECT. I. Of the Justice of the War with America. — SECT. II. Whether the War with America is justified by the Principles of the Constitution. — SECT. III. Of the Policy if the War with America . — SECT. IV. Of the Honour of the Nation as affected by the War with America . — SECT. V. Of the Probability of Succeeding in the War with America . — CONCLUSION. — FOOTNOTES
8. 8.CONTENTS.
9. 9.INTRODUCTION.
10. 10.PART I. SUPPLEMENTAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE Nature and Value of Civil Liberty and Free Government . — SECT. I. Of the Nature of Civil Liberty, and the Essentials of a Free Government. — SECT. II. Of the Value of Liberty, and the Excellence of a Free Government. — CONCLUSION.
11. 11.PART II. CONTAINING Remarks on some Particulars in a Speech at opening the Budget in April 1776 . — SECT. I. Supplemental Observations on the Surplus of the Revenue; the Quantity of Coin in the Kingdom; and Paper-Credit. — SECT. II. Of the State of the Nation; and the War with America. — SECT. III. Of Schemes for raising Money by Public Loans.
12. 12.PART III. — SECT. I. Abstract of the Exports from and Imports to Great-Britain from 1697 to 1773, with Remarks . — SECT. II. Historical Deduction and Analysis of the Public Debts . — SECT. III. Of the Debts and Resources of France. — SECT. IV. Containing an Account of the National Income and Expenditure; the Surplus of the Revenue; and the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes; with Remarks on Lord Stair’s Account.
13. 13.POSTSCRIPT.
14. 14.POSTSCRIPT.
15. 15.SUPPLEMENT TO SECTION III PART II. — FOOTNOTES
16. 16.Corrections and Additions .
17. 17.A Summary View and Comparison of the different Schemes of Public Loans described in the Supplement .

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