The Mind of James Madison: The Legacy of Classical Republicanism

ISBN-13: 9781108404983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 293 str.

Colleen A. Sheehan

Opis

This book provides a compelling and incisive portrait of James Madison, the scholar and political philosopher.

Recenzje

'Thinking about how public opinion formed in that shifting environment would be an important historical project, and one that might benefit from Sheehan's deep and nuanced analysis of Madison.' Tom Cutterham, History of Political Thought

Spis treści

Part I: 1. An itinerant scholar in Mr Jefferson's library; Excursus: travels with Anacharsis; 2. Circumstantial influences on government; 3. The power of public opinion; 4. The federal republican polity; 5. Postscript; Part II: 6. 'Notes on Government'; 7. Additional notes on government; 8. Madison's convention notes and his letter of October 24, 1787, to Thomas Jefferson; 9. Party press essays.