The American Founding and the Social Compact

Herausgeber: Pestritto, Ronald J.; West, Thomas G.

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Produktbeschreibung

The American Founding and the Social Compact is a first-rate collection of essays that examine the shared political ideas of the American Founders with a particular focus on the theory of the social compact. As this volume so convincingly argues, an understanding of social compact theory is essential for understanding the Founders' ideas about human nature, government and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780739106648
• ISBN-10: 0739106643
• Artikelnr.: 21243182

Autorenporträt

Ronald J. Pestritto is Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution at Hillsdale College and author of Founding the Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America (2000). Thomas G. West is professor of politics at the University of Dallas and director and senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. His book Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America (1997) won the 2000 Paolucci Book Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Locke on the Social Compact: An Overview
Chapter 3 Contribution of William Blackstone Chapter 4 Hume, Historical
Inheritance, and the Problem of Founding Chapter 5 The Political Theory of
the Declaration of Independence Chapter 6 Thomas Jefferson and the Social
Compact Chapter 7 From Subjects to Citizens: The Social Compact Origins of
American Citizenship Chapter 8 Alexander Hamilton and the Grand Strategy of
the American Social Compact Chapter 9 John Adams's "Hobbism" Chapter 10
Benjamin Franklin and the Theory of Social Compact

Rezensionen

This study is thoroughly reseached, it engages critically with the existing literature, and it is convincingly argued. Political Studies Review This book magnificently succeeds in restoring the politics of natural right as an intelligible and persuasive alternative to the politics of historicism. Claremont Review Of Books Recommended. CHOICE This volume makes a massive contribution to our understanding of the founding by emphasizing the social compact political theory behind the founding. This allows the various and thoughtful authors to be guided by those special qualities that inhere in the social compact theory-the ideas of nature, equality, liberty, and consent-and to interpret its meaning; this is the often forgotten, yet necessary, condition that helps explain how our constitutional democracy can work so well. I heartily recommend this volume to all students of the founding. -- Peter W. Schramm, executive director & professor of political science, John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Executive Director & Professor