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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Title
Novus Ordo Seclorum
Imprint
University Press of Kansas
Product Form
Paperback
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Genre
History
ISBN13
9780700603114
Book Category
History and Archaeology Books
BISAC Subject Heading
HIS038000
Book Subcategory
Other History Books
ISBN10
9780700603114
Language
English
Dimensions
Width
20 mm
Height
215 mm
Length
138 mm
Weight
465 gr
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