Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government
A Political Biography of Notes on the State of Virginia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8048798 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dustin Gish (0000-0002-4307-9770), Daniel Klinghard (0000-0003-2309-0742) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 348 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| OpenAlex | W2598377269 |
| Open Library | OL28627450M |
| ISBN | 9781107157361 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
This biography of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, his only published book, challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating its core political thought as well as the political aspirations behind its composition, publication and initial dissemination. Building upon a close reading of the book's contents, Jefferson's correspondence and the first comprehensive examination of both its composition and publication history, the authors argue that Jefferson intended his Notes to be read by a wide audience, especially in America, in order to help shape constitutional debates in the critical period of the 1780s. Jefferson, through his determined publication and distribution of his Notes even while serving as American ambassador in Paris, thus brought his own constitutional and political thought into the public sphere - and at times into conflict with the writings of John Adams and James Madison, stimulating a debate over the proper form of Republican constitutionalism that still reverberates in American political thought
Constitutionalism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Political Theory and Influence · biography · History · Philosophy · politics and government · Representative government and representation · Republicanism · Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) · Virginia
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The Machine in the Garden
The Rhetorical Design of John Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of … America
The Republic of Letters
Thomas Jefferson, Andre Morellet, and the French Version of Notes on the State of Virginia
Race and the Moral Foundation of the American Republic
Notes on the State of America
The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought
Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
John Adams's Machiavellian Moment
Thomas Jefferson's Machiavellian Political Science
The Uneasy Relationship between Social Contract Theory and Religious Toleration
Should We Venerate That Which We Cannot Love? James Madison on Constitutional Imperfection
Science on the Move
Enlightenment! Which Enlightenment
Beginnings of the American Rectangular Land Survey System, 1784-1800
Jefferson's Efforts towards the Decimalization of United States Weights and Measures
Democracy and The Federalist
"The Struggle between "Religion and Nonreligion
Political Science and the Enlightenment of Enthusiasm
The Violence of Impediments
Jefferson and Democracy
The American Image of Technology From the Revolution to 1840
The American Paradox
Slavery, Race, and Equality
Habits of Mind and an American Enlightenment
The Concept of Time and the Political Dialogue in the United States, 1828-48
James Madison, a Biography
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |