Add to ORKGThis chapter provides an overview of the Calvinist world into which Sherman was born and raised. It offers an introduction to Reformed political theory, and sketches its transmission from Europe to America. It considers and rejects the possibility that the founders were significantly influenced by a secularized Lockean liberalism. It concludes by demonstrating, contrary to assertions by many scholars, that Sherman was a serious Calvinist
This project focuses on the potential for American liberalism to enable the undermining of its own p...
Did America have a Christian Founding? This disputed question, far from being only of historical int...
The Consitution of the United States promises citizens a republican form of government. Since the do...
In his magisterial history of religion in America, Yale historian Sydney Ahlstrom estimated that the...
Students of the American Founding routinely assert that America\u27s civic leaders were influenced b...
Reviewed Title: Hall, Mark David. Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic. Oxford, U...
It is not uncommon for historians to view America as an experimental laboratory in political theory ...
In 1822, former President John Adams wrote to the biographer John Sanderson that Roger Sherman was ...
Ideas influence the way people think and eventually how people act. Ideas were integral in both spar...
This article refutes the theory that American political and economic institutions, founded on the ri...
The debate on the continuity of American political thought from the 17th century Puritan settlements...
It is a survey of negative consequences caused by the structure of the U.S. Constitutionalism and it...
This chapter sketches the development of rights talk in those parts of the Western tradition inspire...
This dissertation provides an historical and theoretical inquiry into “covenants” as a device within...
The American Framing was one rooted in Republican political theory, and through examining republican...
This project focuses on the potential for American liberalism to enable the undermining of its own p...
Did America have a Christian Founding? This disputed question, far from being only of historical int...
The Consitution of the United States promises citizens a republican form of government. Since the do...
In his magisterial history of religion in America, Yale historian Sydney Ahlstrom estimated that the...
Students of the American Founding routinely assert that America\u27s civic leaders were influenced b...
Reviewed Title: Hall, Mark David. Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic. Oxford, U...
It is not uncommon for historians to view America as an experimental laboratory in political theory ...
In 1822, former President John Adams wrote to the biographer John Sanderson that Roger Sherman was ...
Ideas influence the way people think and eventually how people act. Ideas were integral in both spar...
This article refutes the theory that American political and economic institutions, founded on the ri...
The debate on the continuity of American political thought from the 17th century Puritan settlements...
It is a survey of negative consequences caused by the structure of the U.S. Constitutionalism and it...
This chapter sketches the development of rights talk in those parts of the Western tradition inspire...
This dissertation provides an historical and theoretical inquiry into “covenants” as a device within...
The American Framing was one rooted in Republican political theory, and through examining republican...
This project focuses on the potential for American liberalism to enable the undermining of its own p...
Did America have a Christian Founding? This disputed question, far from being only of historical int...
The Consitution of the United States promises citizens a republican form of government. Since the do...