Title: Origins of American political thought; selected readings,
Authors: Roche, John P. 1923-1994
Publisher: Harper & Row
Year: 1967
Subjects: Political science United States History
Abstract: A collection of essays which highlight the connection between political theory and political practice.
Contents: Introduction ; American liberty : an examination of the "tradition" of freedom / John P. Roche -- The rise of the democratic idea / Louis Hartz -- The Puritan state and Puritan society / Perry Miller -- The political theory of the American Revolution / Clinton Rossiter -- The regal republic of John Adams / Joseph Dorfman -- The origns of the separation of powers in America / Benjamin F. Wright -- The Federalist- a split personality / Alpheus T. Mason -- Men of little faith : the Anti-federalists on the nature of representative government / Cecelia Kenyon -- Liberty and the first amendment : 1790-1800 / Leonard W. Levy.