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    Understanding the founding : the crucial questions / Alan Gibson.

    • Title:Understanding the founding : the crucial questions / Alan Gibson.
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    • Author/Creator:Gibson, Alan Ray, 1961-
    • Published/Created:Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, ©2010.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Constitutional history--United States.
      United States--Politics and government.
    • Edition:2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
    • Description:x, 418 p. ; 24 cm.
    • Series:American political thought.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780700617517 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0700617515 (cloth : alk. paper)
      9780700617524 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      0700617523 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Still hazy after all these years : the economic interpretation and the cloudy legacy of empirical analysis
      Democracy and the founders' constitution : towards a balanced assessment
      How should we study the American founding? : in defense of historically sensitive political philosophy
      Ancients, moderns, and Americans : the republicanism-liberalism debate revisited
      How could they have done that? : slavery and the question of moral responsibility
      Taking historiography seriously.
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