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Liberty & American Experience in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, New)
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Liberty & American Experience in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, New)
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Written by some of today's premiere scholars of American history,
Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century examines
some of the central themes and ideologies central to the formation
of the United States including: David Womersley's introduction
includes a discussion of Edmund Burke's theories on property rights
and government, setting the foundation for the various themes of
liberty found in this volume. In 'Of Liberty and the Colonies: A
Case Study of Constitutional Conflict in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
British American Empire', Jack Greene examines other forms of
government and uses those examples to argue that the founding was
not the conservative process that many have previously supported.
Robert Ferguson explores the roles of law and religion in the
formation of a free and liberal society in 'The Dialectic of
Liberty: Law and Religion in Revolutionary America'. In 'Religious
Conscience and Original Sin: An Exploration of America's Protestant
Foundations', Barry Shain supports Ferguson's contention that
religion had a profound impact on the outlook of the colonists.
John Danford, in 'Riches Valuable at All Times and to All Men: Hume
and the Eighteenth-Century Debate on Commerce and Liberty',
examines the spiritual context of the Founders in regard to the
Enlightenment, arguing that the Founders preferred known ways of
governance and economics to untried and untested theory. 'Moral
Sense Theory and the Appeal to Natural Rights in the American
Founding' by R G Frey suggests that there are conflicting
viewpoints between moral sense theory and the idea of natural
rights in the founding period. David Wootton presents an opposing
view of the Founders in 'Liberty, Metaphor, and Mechanism: Checks
and Balances and the Origins of Modern Constitutionalism'. He
suggests that the ideas formed in the Enlightenment were seized
upon by the Founders and that the result was a much more
progressive system than could have been predicted. 'In Scottish
Thought and the American Revolution: Adam Ferguson's Response to
Richard Price', Ronald Hamowy discusses the consequences of the
colonial conflict and pays tribute to the intellectual force of
American affairs. Lance Banning examines the divisions in thought
among the revolutionaries regarding the nature of liberty and the
manner in which liberty was to be preserved in 'Federalism,
Constitutionalism, and Republican Liberty: The First Constructions
of the Constitution'. In 'Is There a James Madison Problem?',
Gordon Wood presents the disparity in Madison's political thought
from the 1780s to the 1790s. 'Liberty and American Experience in
the Eighteenth Century' provides an examination of various facets
of the Founders' lives and thoughts, as well as their times, to
help readers understand the events that went into their country's
creation.
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