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