Introduction:
American Republicanism

Progressive Historians
                 -Charles A. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913)
         

Consensus Historians
          -
Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (1955)
          -Classical Liberalism
                        -John Locke (1632-1704)
                        -Adam Smith (1732-1790)

Republicanism
          -Bernard Bailyn,
Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)
 
         -Robert E. Shalhope, "Toward a Republican Synthesis,"
                       -William and Mary Quarterly XXIX (1972): 49-80.
 
         -Gordon Wood, Creation of the American Republic (1969)

Ancient History
          -Roman Republic
          -Roman Empire

Radical Whigs
          -
Real Whigs
          -18th Century Commonwealthmen

English Commonwealth (Republic), 1649-1660
          -Oliver Cromwell
          -John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, Cato's Letters (1720s)
          -John Burgh, Political Discourses 3 vols. (1774)

Sir Robert Walpole

Whig Interpretation of History
          -Power versus Liberty

Anglicization

Stages of Development
          -Hunting and Gathering
          -Herding
          -Agriculture
          -Commerce

Benjamin Franklin,
          -"Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind" (1751)

Liberalism

Republicanism
          -Virtue
          -Property
          -Liberty
          -Equality

Labor Theory of Value

 

       
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