Republicanism
 
 

Whig Interpretation of History

       -Power versus Liberty


John Locke, Second Treatise on Government (1689)

       -Monarchy

       -Aristocracy

       -Democracy


Liberty

    
-Licentiousness


Development of Human Society

     -Hunting and Gathering

     -Pasturage 

     -Farming

     -Commerce


Benjamin Franklin

      -"Observations on the Increase of Mankind" (1751)

             -Population Density


Common Good


     
-Public Good

     
-Public Welfare

Virtue

Equality

     
-Opportunity

     
-Condition


Natural Aristocracy of Talent

       -Primogeniture  

       -Entail  

 

Read Federalist #10 for next time.