Reason and Republicanism Thomas Jefferson's Legacy of Liberty

by McDowell, Gary L.; Noble, Sharon L.; Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth; Frisch, Morton; Rahe, Paul; Stoner, James; Faulkner, Robert K.; Zvesper, John; Temperly, Howard; Rutland, Robert A.; Berger, Raoul; Bonwick, Colin; Parish, Peter; Sedgwick, Jeffrey; Pole, J R.;

• ISBN13: 9780847685219
• ISBN10: 0847685217
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-29
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

An international collection of the world's most distinguished historians and political philosophers takes a fresh look at the political, legal, and philosophical contributions of Thomas Jefferson.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Philosophy
Jefferson on Liberal Natural Rights	p. 15
Jefferson and the Enlightened Science of Liberty	p. 31
Jefferson's Machiavellian Moment	p. 53
Jefferson and Slavery: A Study in Moral Perplexity	p. 85
Thomas Jefferson, the Common Law, and Constitutionalism
Sound Whigs or Honeyed Tories? Jefferson and the Common Law Tradition	p. 103
Jefferson's Greatest Vision: The Promise of the Bill of Rights	p. 119
Jefferson and the Law	p. 133
Thomas Jefferson and the Pursuit of Equality in American History
Jefferson as Nationalist	p. 149
A Respectful Revisionism: Lincoln and the Jeffersonian Legacy in the Civil War Era	p. 169
Jeffersonianism in the Progressive Era	p. 189
Jeffersonianism and the New Deal	p. 205
Thomas Jefferson and the Pursuit of Equality in American Politics
Jefferson and the Pursuit of Equality	p. 219
Civil Rights and Civil Religion: The Jeffersonian Legacy	p. 231
Women and Equality: Promise or Deception?	p. 251
The Moral Sense, Character Formation, and Virtue	p. 271
Index	p. 305
About the Contributors	p. 326
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