Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 220 pages)
ISBN:
9780268086770
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026808677X
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0268087229
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9780268087227
Content:
Jeffry H. Morrison offers readers the first comprehensive look at the political thought and career of John Witherspoon, a Scottish Presbyterian minister and one of America's most influential and overlooked founding fathers. Witherspoon was an active member of the Continental Congress, was the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, and ratified the federal Constitution. During his tenure as president of the College of New Jersey at Princeton, Witherspoon became a mentor to James Madison and influenced many leaders and thinkers of the founding period. He was uniquely positioned at the crossroads of politics, religion, and education during the crucial decades of the founding of the new republic. Morrison locates Witherspoon in the context of early American political thought and charts the various influences on his thinking. This impressive work of scholarship offers a broad treatment of Witherspoon's constitutionalism, including his contributions to the mediating institutions of religion and education, and to political institutions from the colonial through the early federal periods
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-204) and index
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Forgotten founder -- "The public interest of religion" : virtue, religion, and the republic -- "Plain common sense" : educating patriots at Princeton -- "An animated Son of Liberty" : revolution -- "An equal republican constitution" : confederation, union, and nationhood -- John Witherspoon and early American political thought -- Appendix A. Witherspoon and the debate in Congress on independence, July 1776 -- Appendix B. Dating the "Sermon delivered at a public thanksgiving after peace," 1782.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0268034850
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780268034856
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Morrison, Jeffry H., 1961- John Witherspoon and the founding of the American republic Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2005
Language:
English
