In Search of the Republic: Public Virtue and the Roots of American GovernmentRowman & Littlefield, 1996 - 269 Seiten When In Search of the Republic was originally published in 1987, scholarly interpretations of the concept of virtue in the American founding were considered peripheral to mainstream political theory. Since then, the authors' arguments that public virtue, civic responsibility, and private morality were at the heart of the Founding Fathers' political thought is now accepted by a growing number of contemporary political theorists. This revised edition includes a new preface that places In Search of the Republic within the context of contemporary debates over the role of virtue and religion in early American political discourse. This is a superb introduction for students and scholars interested in learning about the moral, political, and constitutional theories of the Founding Fathers. |
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... citizens would scarcely recognize the results of that upheaval , with its rigid class system and narrow suffrage , as being a close relative of our own . The United States and its unique Constitution came along about a century later ...
... citizens would scarcely recognize the results of that upheaval , with its rigid class system and narrow suffrage , as being a close relative of our own . The United States and its unique Constitution came along about a century later ...
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... of law , although wise laws may be helpful in promoting consistency among the elements of virtue . The Founders did endorse a government role in the formation of citizen character with the promotion of moral education and laws xiii.
... of law , although wise laws may be helpful in promoting consistency among the elements of virtue . The Founders did endorse a government role in the formation of citizen character with the promotion of moral education and laws xiii.
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... citizen character with the promotion of moral education and laws regulating public decency . According to political scientist Thomas G. West in The Review of Politics , they " regarded virtue as an indispens- able condition of freedom ...
... citizen character with the promotion of moral education and laws regulating public decency . According to political scientist Thomas G. West in The Review of Politics , they " regarded virtue as an indispens- able condition of freedom ...
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... citizens . Instead , argued Wood , they established an essentially aristocratic regime , one intended to check the democratic tendencies of the period and forfeit the " ideal good " to the tangible interests of a society composed of ...
... citizens . Instead , argued Wood , they established an essentially aristocratic regime , one intended to check the democratic tendencies of the period and forfeit the " ideal good " to the tangible interests of a society composed of ...
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