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100 1 $aSellers, M. N. S.$q(Mortimer N. S.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94046966
245 10 $aAmerican republicanism :$bRoman ideology in the United States Constitution /$cM.N.S. Sellers.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$c1994.
300 $axiii, 349 ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-331) and index.
505 0 $aPt. I. Republican Images. 2. Republican Pseudonyms. 3. The Iconography of the American Revolution. 4. North American Classicism. 5. Public Debate at the Time of the Constitutional Convention. 6. Republican Images -- Pt. II. The Roman Example. 7. The Influence of John Adams. 8. The Pennsylvania Republicans. 9. Polybius and the Roman Constitution. 10. The English and American Constitutions. 11. The United States Constitution. 12. The Roman Example -- Pt. III. Republican Narratives. 13. Livy's Empire of Laws. 14. Plutarch's Lives. 15. Tacitus and Liberty. 16. Sallust and Corruption. 17. Cicero's Res Publica. 18. Republican Narratives -- Pt. IV. English Commonwealths. 19. Thomas Gordon's Republicanism. 20. 'Cato' and Virtue. 21. Algernon Sidney and the People. 22. James Harrington and the Senate. 23. John Locke and the United States Constitution. 24. English Commonwealths -- Pt. V. American Republicans. 25. The Antifederalists. 26. Montesquieu's Republics. 27. James Wilson's Republicanism.
505 8 $a28. The State Ratifying Conventions. 29. Publius as a Republican. 30. American Republicans -- Pt. VI. Res Publica Restituta. 31. American Republicanism.
520 $aThe origins of the U. S. Constitution are the source of endless debate. What did the founders intend when they drafted this monumental work? How should we interpret their formulations in the contemporary world? Is the Constitution a living, breathing document, as is so frequently said, or is it more staid in its intentions?
520 8 $aComparing the writings and speeches of the founders with the authors they read, studied, and imitated, M. N. S. Sellers here identifies the central tenets of American republicanism. What, he asks, did "republicanism" mean to the Americans who drafted and ratified the Constitution?
520 8 $aDrawing on an impressive array of historical sources, this interdisciplinary work convincingly demonstrates that the Constitution was far less influenced by English or continental political thought than has been previously thought. Rather, Sellers argues, the Constitution is firmly rooted in classical Roman concepts of law and philosophy
520 8 $a. American Republicanism presents the primary republican narratives in their American context, providing contemporary lawyers, philosophers, and historians with a window into the attitudes and understandings that animated the Constitution. The ratification debates confirm how little in the new American conception of republicanism was still at issue in 1787 and how much Americans owed to Rome's example and the Latin authors who dominated their colonial grammar-school curriculum.
650 0 $aPolitical science$zUnited States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109602
650 0 $aRepublicanism$zUnited States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010110825
650 0 $aConstitutional history$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139984
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