American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States Constitution

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-7
Republican Pseudonyms....Pages 8-10
The Iconography of the American Revolution....Pages 11-19
North American Classicism....Pages 20-23
Public Debate at the Time of the Constitutional Convention....Pages 24-26
Republican Images....Pages 27-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
The Influence of John Adams....Pages 33-40
The Pennsylvania Republicans....Pages 41-45
Polybius and the Roman Constitution....Pages 46-49
The English and American Constitutions....Pages 50-56
The United States Constitution....Pages 57-62
The Roman Example....Pages 63-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Livy’s Empire of Laws....Pages 69-76
Plutarch’s Lives....Pages 77-82
Tacitus and Liberty....Pages 83-86
Sallust and Corruption....Pages 87-89
Republican Narratives....Pages 90-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-101
Thomas Gordon’s Republicanism....Pages 103-103
‘Cato’ and Virtue....Pages 105-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-117
Algernon Sidney and the People....Pages 103-103
James Harrington and the Senate....Pages 118-125
John Locke and the United States Constitution....Pages 126-132
English Commonwealths....Pages 133-141
Front Matter....Pages 142-145
The Antifederalists....Pages 147-147
Montesquieu’s Republics....Pages 149-162
James Wilson’s Republicanism....Pages 163-171
The State Ratifying Conventions....Pages 172-178
Publius as a Republican....Pages 179-198
American Republicans....Pages 199-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-214
American Republicanism....Pages 215-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-246
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