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Father of liberty : Jonathan Mayhew and the principles of the American Revolution / J. Patrick Mullins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mullins, J. Patrick, author.
- Series:
- American political thought.
- American Political Thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayhew, Jonathan, 1720-1766.
- Mayhew, Jonathan.
- Church and state--United States--History--18th century.
- Church and state.
- Clergy--Massachusetts--Boston--Political activity.
- Clergy.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2017.
- Summary:
- Dr. Jonathan Mayhew was the most politically influential clergyman in eighteenth-century America; he championed the principles of natural rights, constitutionalism, and resistance to tyranny in press and pulpit from 1750 to 1766. He did more than any other clergyman to prepare New England for disobedience to British authority in the 1760s.
- Contents:
- The right of private judgment
- The right of resistance
- Virtue and liberty
- Power and corruption
- Sceptre and surplice
- The whig dilemma.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 990323660
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