American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States Constitution

Abstract

Preface - PART 1: REPUBLICAN IMAGES - Introduction - Republican Pseudonyms - The Iconography of the American Revolution - North American Classicism - Public Debate at the Time of the Constitutional Convention - Republican Images - PART 2: THE ROMAN EXAMPLE - The Influence of John Adams - The Pennsylvania Republicans - Polybius and the Roman Constitution - The English and American Constitutions - The United States Constitution - The Roman Example - PART 3: REPUBLICAN NARRATIVES - Livy's Empire of Laws - Plutarch's Lives - Tacitus and Liberty - Sallust and Corruption - Cicero's Res Publica - Republican Narratives - PART 4: ENGLISH COMMONWEALTHS - Thomas Gordon's Republicanism - 'Cato' and Virtue - Algernon Sidney and the People - James Harrington and the Senate - John Locke and the United States Constitution - English Commonwealths - PART 5: AMERICAN REPUBLICANS - The Antifederalists - Montesquieu's Republics - James Wilson's Republicanism - The State Ratifying Conventions - Publius as a Republican - American Republicans - PART 6: RES PUBLICA RESTITUTA - American Republicanism - End-Notes - Concise Bibliography - Index

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