On Civil Liberty and Self-Government (1883, 3rd ed.) by Francis Lieber – Edited by Theodore D. Woolsey
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On Civil Liberty and Self-Government (1883, 3rd ed.) by Francis Lieber – Edited by Theodore D. Woolsey
Author: Francis Lieber
Year: 1883
Lieber, Francis. On Civil Liberty and Self-Government , 3 rd ed. Edited by Theodore D. Woolsey. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1883. Contextual Background Francis Lieber’s On Civil Liberty and Self-Government is a landmark 19th-century American treatise in political science, first published in 1853 and revised in 1859, with the posthumous third edition edited by Theodore D. Woolsey in 1883. It represents a sustained intellectual effort to define and defend the principles of civil liberty within the framework of constitutional self-government, especially as practiced in the Anglo-American political tradition. Lieber was a German-American jurist, scholar, and political philosopher, who experienced firsthand the revolutions, oppressions, and ideological shifts of 19th-century Europe before emigrating to the United States. His experiences in Prussia, Greece, and other parts of Europe, as well as his academic career in South Carolina and New York, gave him a comparative outlook that deeply informed his belief in ordered liberty, institutional development, and representative government. His understanding of liberty was rooted in a firm rejection of both absolutist monarchy and abst
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