Colleen A. Sheehan

James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government

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Produktbeschreibung

Sheehan argues that Madison's vision for the new nation was informed by the idea of republican self-government.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780521727334
• ISBN-10: 0521727332
• Artikelnr.: 23882437

Autorenporträt

Colleen A. Sheehan is Associate Professor of Political Science at Villanova University and has served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. She is the co-editor of Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the Other Federalists 1787-1788 and author of numerous articles on the American Founding and eighteenth-century political and moral thought; these have appeared in journals such the William and Mary Quarterly, American Political Science Review, Review of Politics, and Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Republican opposition
2. The Federalist agenda
3. Madison and the French Enlightenment
4. The commerce of ideas
5. Madison and Jefferson: an appeal to the people
6. The spirit of republican government.