| Description |
xxx, 347 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Note |
Based on lectures presented at a conference held in Williamsburg, Va. in June 1998, sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Is America an experiment? / Wilfred M. McClay -- Founders as farmers : the Greek Georgic tradition and the founders / Bruce S. Thornton -- Open shutters on the past : Rome and the Founders / E. Christian Kopff -- Virtue and the Constitution : Augustinian theology and the frame of American common sense / Graham Walker -- Natural law, the Constitution, and the theory and practice of judicial review / Robert P. George -- Christianity, the common law, and the Constitution / James R. Stoner, Jr. -- Liberty and license : the American Founding and the Western conception of freedom / Barry Alan Shain -- Founding and the Enlightenment : two theories of sovereignty / Donald W. Livingston -- Revolutions, not made, but prevented : 1776, 1688, and the triumph of the Old Whigs / Bruce Frohnen -- Therapeutic threat to human liberty : pragmatism vs. conservatism on America and the West today / Peter Augustine Lawler. |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809.
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Constitutional history.
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| Added Author |
Gregg, Gary L., 1967-
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Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
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| ISBN |
1882926315 |
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