num_pages: 363
description: Like dye cast into water, liberal assumptions colour everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded L word of the 1988 presidential campaign, liberalism in its historical context emerged from the modern faith in free inquiry, natural rights, economic liberty, and democratic government. Expressed in the nation-building acts of revolution and constitution-writing, liberalism both structured and limited Americans' sense of reality for two centuries.
language: English
title: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination
titlecomplete: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination
genres: American
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Harvard University Press