America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism
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America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism
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America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism

America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism

America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism

America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism

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Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Sk of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book shows in detail the Enlightenment origin of the US Constitution. It provides vivid analysis of how the Enlightenment's basic ideas were reformulated in the context of America.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403972361
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 09/25/2007
Series: Studies of the Americas
Edition description: 2006
Pages: 270
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Johnathan O'Neill is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University, and the author of Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History (2005).

Gary McDowell is Professor, Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Gary L. McDowell &Johnathan O'Neill Part I: Enlightenment Philosophy and Constitutionalism Recovering (From) Enlightenment? - Steven D. Smith The Positivization of Natural Rights - Martin Loughlin Epicureanism and the Enlightenment - Frederick Rosen Preface to Liberalism: Locke's First Treatise and the Bible - Robert Faulkner Montesquieu and the Constitution of Liberty - Paul A. Rahe Part II: The Enlightenment and the Constitution in America The American Enlightenment - Gordon S. Wood Enlightenment and Experience: The Virginia Constitution of 1776 - Colin Bonwick Nation-Making and the American Constitutional Process - J.R. Pole Ticklish Experiments: The Paradox of American Constitutionalism - Jack Rakove James Madison and the Idea of Fundamental Law - C. Bradley Thompson
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