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Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government - A Political Biography of Notes on the State of Virginia (Hardcover)
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Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government - A Political Biography of Notes on the State of Virginia (Hardcover)
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This biography of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of
Virginia, his only published book, challenges conventional wisdom
by demonstrating its core political thought as well as the
political aspirations behind its composition, publication and
initial dissemination. Building upon a close reading of the book's
contents, Jefferson's correspondence and the first comprehensive
examination of both its composition and publication history, the
authors argue that Jefferson intended his Notes to be read by a
wide audience, especially in America, in order to help shape
constitutional debates in the critical period of the 1780s.
Jefferson, through his determined publication and distribution of
his Notes even while serving as American ambassador in Paris, thus
brought his own constitutional and political thought into the
public sphere - and at times into conflict with the writings of
John Adams and James Madison, stimulating a debate over the proper
form of Republican constitutionalism that still reverberates in
American political thought.
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