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Understanding the Founding
Alan Ray Gibson
其他書名
The Crucial Questions
出版University Press of Kansas, 2007
主題History / HistoriographyHistory / United States / GeneralLaw / ConstitutionalPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / ConstitutionsPolitical Science / American Government / General
ISBN07006151999780700615193
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6q-RAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Over the course of the last century, scholars have furiously debated four questions concerning the Founders and their act of creation. Were the Framers motivated by their economic interests? How democratic was the Framers' Constitution? Should we interpret the Founding using philosophical or strictly historical approaches? What traditions of political thought were most important to the Framers? In Understanding the Founding: The Crucial Questions, Alan Gibson examines the preconceptions that scholars bring to these questions, explores the deepest sources of scholars' disagreements over them, and suggests new and thoughtful lines of interpretation and inquiry. Building on his previous work, Interpreting the Founding, which offers a synoptic overview of the competing perspectives that have informed modern scholarship on the Founders...