European and American Constitutionalism in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Michał Rozbicki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michał Rozbicki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gerald Stourzh |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2010-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226776387 |
Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald Stourzh’s sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his career—from Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria. This storied career brought him in the 1950s from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago—of which he draws a brilliant picture—and later took him to Berlin and eventually back to Austria. One of the few prominent scholars equally at home with U.S. history and the history of central Europe, Stourzh has informed these geographically diverse experiences and subjects with the overarching themes of his scholarly achievement: the comparative study of liberal constitutionalism and the struggle for equal rights at the core of Western notions of free government. Composed between 1953 and 2005 and including a new autobiographical essay written especially for this volume, From Vienna to Chicago and Back will delight Stourzh fans, attract new admirers, and make an important contribution to transatlantic history.
Author | : G. McDowell |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2006-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230601065 |
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book shows in detail the Enlightenment origin of the US Constitution. It provides vivid analysis of how the Enlightenment's basic ideas were reformulated in the context of America.
Author | : Scott GORDON |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0674037839 |
This book examines the development of the theory and practice of constitutionalism, defined as a political system in which the coercive power of the state is controlled through a pluralistic distribution of political power. It explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch Republic, seventeenth-century England, and eighteenth-century America. From its beginning in Polybius' interpretation of the classical concept of mixed government, the author traces the theory of constitutionalism through its late medieval appearance in the Conciliar Movement of church reform and in the Huguenot defense of minority rights. After noting its suppression with the emergence of the nation-state and the Bodinian doctrine of sovereignty, the author describes how constitutionalism was revived in the English conflict between king and Parliament in the early Stuart era, and how it has developed since then into the modern concept of constitutional democracy.
Author | : David M. Kirkham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Scholarship has shown that 18th-century higher education had a general tendency to 'politicize' and 'republicanize' American colonials. Examination of the educational backgrounds of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention reveals that higher education made an essential contribution to the creation of the U.S. Constitutional Convention reveals that higher education made an essential contribution to the creation of the U.S. Constitution. Many of the intellectual sources of the Constitution were conveyed to the framers through the higher education process. In a day when a fraction of a percentage of Americans went to college, 31 of the 55 delegates to the Convention had substantial formal higher education at American colleges, at European, especially Scottish universities, and at the English Inns of Court. This study shows how higher education transmitted the precepts of British-American republican constitutionalism to the 'real framers' of the Constitution, that is, those delegates generally most responsible for the Constitution, that is, those delegates generally most responsible for the Constitution's construction. It reveals how the writings of classical antiquity, the common law, the English Whig tradition, the European Enlightenment, Protestant religion and the study of history conveyed to colonial collegians and members of the Inns of Court constitutional principles that would find their way into the American charter. This thesis also indicates that the contributions to constitutional thought of the College of New Jersey (Princeton) and the Inns of Court were exceptional in terms of both which and how many delegates these institutions educated. Theses. (edc).
Author | : Guillaume Ansart |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2015-06-29 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 027105896X |
Condorcet (1743–1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American Revolution. Condorcet’s writings on the American Revolution, the Federal Constitution, and the new political culture emerging in the United States constitute milestones in the history of French political thought and of French attitudes toward the United States. These remarkable texts, however, have not been available in modern editions or translations. This book presents first or new translations of all of Condorcet’s major writings on the United States, including an essay on the impact of the American Revolution on Europe; a commentary on the Federal Constitution, the first such commentary to be published in the Old World; and his Eulogy of Franklin, in which Condorcet paints a vivid picture of his recently deceased friend as the archetype of the new American man: self-made, practical, talented but modest, tolerant and free of prejudice—the embodiment of reason, common sense, and the liberal values of the Enlightenment.
Author | : Michał Rozbicki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin |
Publisher | : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : 1584772271 |
This study locates the principles of the United States Constitution in the political philosophy of colonial New England, Puritan practices and the ideals of English personal rights and limited government common to all of the colonies.
Author | : Vincenzo Ferrone |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0857289705 |
Written by one of Italy's leading historians, this book analyses the Neapolitan nobleman Gaetano Filangieri and his seven-volume 'Science of Legislation' in their historical context, expounding on his legacy for the histories of constitutional republicanism, liberalism, and political economy.