John Witherspoon And The Founding Of The American Republic
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John Witherspoon And The Founding Of The American Republic
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Author : Jeffry H. Morrison
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2003-01-27
John Witherspoon And The Founding Of The American Republic written by Jeffry H. Morrison and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-27 with History categories.
Jeffry H. Morrison offers readers the first comprehensive look at the political thought and career of John Witherspoon—a Scottish Presbyterian minister and one of America’s most influential and overlooked founding fathers. Witherspoon was an active member of the Continental Congress and was the only clergyman both to sign the Declaration of Independence and to ratify the federal Constitution. During his tenure as president of the College of New Jersey at Princeton, Witherspoon became a mentor to James Madison and influenced many leaders and thinkers of the founding period. He was uniquely positioned at the crossroads of politics, religion, and education during the crucial first decades of the new republic. Morrison locates Witherspoon in the context of early American political thought and charts the various influences on his thinking. This impressive work of scholarship offers a broad treatment of Witherspoon’s constitutionalism, including his contributions to the mediating institutions of religion and education, and to political institutions from the colonial through the early federal periods. This book will be appreciated by anyone with an interest in American political history and thought and in the relation of religion to American politics.
Roger Sherman And The Creation Of The American Republic
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Author : Mark David Hall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013
Roger Sherman And The Creation Of The American Republic written by Mark David Hall and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of leading figures of his day, Roger Sherman was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and an influential delegate at the Constitutional Convention. As a Representative and Senator in the new republic, he had a hand in determining the proper scope of the national government's power as well as drafting the Bill of Rights. In Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic, Mark David Hall explores Sherman's political theory and shows how it informed his many contributions to America's founding. A close examination of Sherman's religious beliefs provides insight into how those beliefs informed his political actions. Hall shows that Sherman, like many founders, was influenced by Calvinist political thought, a tradition that played a role in the founding generation's opposition to Great Britain, and led them to develop political institutions designed to prevent corruption, promote virtue, and protect rights. Contrary to oft-repeated assertions that the founders advocated a strictly secular policy, Hall argues persuasively that most founders believed Christianity should play an important role in the new American republic.
John Witherspoon S American Revolution
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Author : Gideon Mailer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
John Witherspoon S American Revolution written by Gideon Mailer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Church and state categories.
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Faith And The Founders Of The American Republic
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Author : Daniel L. Dreisbach
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014-05
Faith And The Founders Of The American Republic written by Daniel L. Dreisbach and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05 with History categories.
Thirteen essays written by leading scholars explore the impact of a rich variety of religious traditions on the political thought of America's founders.
John Witherspoon S American Revolution
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Author : Gideon Mailer
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2016-11-23
John Witherspoon S American Revolution written by Gideon Mailer and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-23 with History categories.
In 1768, John Witherspoon, Presbyterian leader of the evangelical Popular party faction in the Scottish Kirk, became the College of New Jersey's sixth president. At Princeton, he mentored constitutional architect James Madison; as a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, he was the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence. Although Witherspoon is often thought to be the chief conduit of moral sense philosophy in America, Mailer's comprehensive analysis of this founding father's writings demonstrates the resilience of his evangelical beliefs. Witherspoon's Presbyterian evangelicalism competed with, combined with, and even superseded the civic influence of Scottish Enlightenment thought in the British Atlantic world. John Witherspoon's American Revolution examines the connection between patriot discourse and long-standing debates--already central to the 1707 Act of Union--about the relationship among piety, moral philosophy, and political unionism. In Witherspoon's mind, Americans became different from other British subjects because more of them had been awakened to the sin they shared with all people. Paradoxically, acute consciousness of their moral depravity legitimized their move to independence by making it a concerted moral action urged by the Holy Spirit. Mailer's exploration of Witherspoon's thought and influence suggests that, for the founders in his circle, civic virtue rested on personal religious awakening.
John Witherspoon S American Revolution
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Author : Gideon Mailer
language : en
Publisher: Omohundro Ins
Release Date : 2019-02
John Witherspoon S American Revolution written by Gideon Mailer and has been published by Omohundro Ins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Faith And The Founders Of The American Republic
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Author : Daniel L. Dreisbach
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-18
Faith And The Founders Of The American Republic written by Daniel L. Dreisbach and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with Religion categories.
The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a hotly debated question. Some historians have regarded the views of a few famous founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Thomas Paine, as evidence that the founders were deists who advocated the strict separation of church and state. Popular Christian polemicists, on the other hand, have attempted to show that virtually all of the founders were pious Christians in favor of public support for religion. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, a diverse array of religious traditions informed the political culture of the American founding. Faith and the Founders of the American Republic includes studies both of minority faiths, such as Islam and Judaism, and of major traditions like Calvinism. It also includes nuanced analysis of specific founders-Quaker fellow-traveler John Dickinson, prominent Baptists Isaac Backus and John Leland, and Theistic Rationalist Gouverneur Morris, among others-with attention to their personal histories, faiths, constitutional philosophies, and views on the relationship between religion and the state. This volume will be a crucial resource for anyone interested in the place of faith in the founding of the American constitutional republic, from political, religious, historical, and legal perspectives.
America S Forgotten Founders Second Edition
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Author : Gary L Gregg
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-03-11
America S Forgotten Founders Second Edition written by Gary L Gregg and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Even as Americans devour books about our Founding Fathers, the focus seldom extends past a half dozen or so icons—Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton. Many of the men (and women) who made prodigious contributions to the American founding have been all but forgotten. America’s Forgotten Founders corrects this injustice. Editors Gary L. Gregg II and Mark David Hall surveyed forty-five top scholars in history, political science, and law to produce the first-ever ranking of the most neglected contributors to the American Revolution and our constitutional order. This unique book features engaging short biographies of the top ten most important Founders whose contributions are overlooked today: James Wilson, George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, John Jay, Roger Sherman, John Marshall, John Dickinson, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and John Witherspoon. The latest entry in ISI Books’ Lives of the Founders series, America’s Forgotten Founders reshapes our understanding of America’s founding generation.
America S Forgotten Founders Second Edition
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Author : Gary L. Gregg
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-05-30
America S Forgotten Founders Second Edition written by Gary L. Gregg and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-30 with History categories.
Beyond Washington and Jefferson: Ranking the Founders. Even as Americans devour books about our Founding Fathers, the focus seldom extends past a half dozen or so icons—Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton. Many of the men (and women) who made prodigious contributions to the American founding have been all but forgotten. America's Forgotten Founders corrects this injustice. Editors Gary L. Gregg II and Mark David Hall surveyed forty-five top scholars in history, political science, and law to produce the first-ever ranking of the most neglected contributors to the American Revolution and our constitutional order. This unique book features engaging short biographies of the top ten most important Founders whose contributions are overlooked today: James Wilson, George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, John Jay, Roger Sherman, John Marshall, John Dickinson, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and John Witherspoon. Part of the "Lives of the Founders" series, America's Forgotten Founders reshapes our understanding of America's founding generation.
Forgotten Features Of The Founding
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Author : James H. Hutson
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2003
Forgotten Features Of The Founding written by James H. Hutson and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.
Six original essays that explore the deep significance of previously neglected religious themes in the Founding Era.