The dig- nity of the smallholder or pioneer and the progress of a continental “empire of liberty” go hand-in-hand.9 Much of the continent’s private property in land was created under the banner of providential republicanism, and its tropes persist in property-rights movements, calls for local land-use sover- eignty, and resistance to regulation as a centralizing, tyrannical, and possibly European scheme against liberty.The second understanding, which arose in the later decades of the nine- teenth century, is progressive management. Moreover, small-scale private ownership of land, the sort associated with the republican thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, uniquely produces fruitful use, so that political freedom and economic productivity go hand-in-hand. In this view, the natural world is made for productive use: nature has a telos, to be fruitful and support human life, and this purpose is realized only through human labor.
uencies, and in the ideas that individual Americans carry about their place in the larger natural world.The oldest of these understandings, the touchstone of the early republic, is providential republicanism. 927 (2006) (setting out an account of the role of social movements in contesting and contributing to the meaning of basic but underspecified public values).
Siegel, Principles, Practices, and Social Move- ments, 154 U. Related to Avtar Singh – Law of Contract & Specific Relief Act, 1986 – Eastern Book Com
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