Understanding the founding
Subtitle: the crucial questions
By: Alan Gibson.
Series: American political thought
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780700615193
Subjects: Constitutional history -- United States; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Still hazy after all these years: the economic interpretation and the cloudy legacy of empirical analysis; title: Democracy and the founders' constitution: toward a balanced assessment; title: How should we study the American founding?: in defense of historically sensitive political philosophy; title: Ancients, moderns, and Americans: the republicanism-liberalism debate revisited; title: Taking historiography seriously: on identity, democracy, authority, and appropriation.