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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780739106655
• ISBN-10: 0739106651
• Artikelnr.: 21632813

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