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New order of the ages : time, the constitution, and the making of modern American political thought / Michael Lienesch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lienesch, Michael, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty--History--18th century.
- Liberty.
- History.
- Liberalism--United States--History--18th century.
- Liberalism.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 235 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- Lienesch shows that what emerged from the period of change was an inconsistent combination of political theories. The mixture of classical republicanism and modern liberalism was institutionalized in the American Constitution and has continued--ambivalent, contradictory, and sometimes flatly paradoxical--to characterize American policies ever since.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 215-227.
- ISBN:
- 0691077797
- OCLC:
- 17506359
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