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

McDonald, Forrest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0700603115 ISBN 13: 9780700603114

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 analyzes 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 their own experience, their wisdom, and their common sense.

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Forrest McDonald was Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Alabama and author of sixteen books, including Pulitzer Prize finalist Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution and The American Presidency. He was named by the NEH as the sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer, the nation’s highest honor in the humanities.

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'A witty and energetic study of the ideas and passions of the Framers.' - New York Times Book Review'An important, comprehensive statement about the most fundamental period in American history. It deals authoritatively with topics no student of American can afford to ignore.' - Harvey Mansfield, author of the Spirit of Liberalism

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• Verlag: University Press Of Kansas
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0700603115
• ISBN 13: 9780700603114
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376
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