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Author Gibson, Alan Ray, 1961-

Title Understanding the founding : the crucial questions / Alan Gibson.

Imprint Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  342.029 G357u 2010    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
Description x, 418 p. ; 24 cm.
Series American political thought
American political thought.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Still hazy after all these years : the economic interpretation and the cloudy legacy of empirical analysis -- Democracy and the founders' constitution : towards a balanced assessment -- How should we study the American founding? : in defense of historically sensitive political philosophy -- Ancients, moderns, and Americans : the republicanism-liberalism debate revisited -- How could they have done that? : slavery and the question of moral responsibility -- Taking historiography seriously.
Subject Constitutional history -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.
ISBN 9780700617517 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700617515 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700617524 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0700617523 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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