The American Founding and the Social Compact
The American Founding and the Social Compact
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25 August, 2003
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780739106655 |
| ISBN10 | 0739106651 |
| Number Of Pages | 296 |
| Item Weight | 386 g |
| Product Dimensions | 150 x 226 x 16 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format | paperback |
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This study is thoroughly reseached, it engages critically with the existing literature, and it is convincingly argued. * Political Studies Review *
This book magnificently succeeds in restoring the politics of natural right as an intelligible and persuasive alternative to the politics of historicism. * Claremont Review of Books *
Recommended. * Choice Reviews *
This volume makes a massive contribution to our understanding of the founding by emphasizing the social compact political theory behind the founding. This allows the various and thoughtful authors to be guided by those special qualities that inhere in the social compact theory—the ideas of nature, equality, liberty, and consent—and to interpret its meaning; this is the often forgotten, yet necessary, condition that helps explain how our constitutional democracy can work so well. I heartily recommend this volume to all students of the founding. -- Peter W. Schramm, Executive Director of the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs and a Professor of Political Science at Ashland University
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Author's Bio
Ronald J. Pestritto is Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution at Hillsdale College and author of Founding the Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America (2000). Thomas G. West is professor of politics at the University of Dallas and director and senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. His book Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America (1997) won the 2000 Paolucci Book Award.