Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution - Hardcover

McDonald, Forrest

 
9780700602841: Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0700602844 ISBN 13: 9780700602841
Verlag: University Press of Kansas, 1985

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This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in more than two decades. Forrest McDonald, widely considered one of the foremost historians of the Constitution and of the early national period, reconstructs the intellectual world of the Founding Fathers--including their understanding of law, history political philosophy, and political economy, and their firsthand experience in public affairs--and then yzes their behavior in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in light of that world. No one has attempted to do so on such a scale before. McDonald's principal conclusion is that, though the Framers brought a variety of ideological and philosophical positions to bear upon their task of building a "new order of the ages," they were guided primarily by theiy own experience, their wisdom, and their common sense.

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Verlag
University Press of Kansas
Erscheinungsdatum
1985
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0700602844
ISBN 13 
9780700602841
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Anzahl der Seiten
362
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