The American Founding and the Social Compact
Author:   Ronald J. Pestritto ,  Thomas G. West ,  Edward J. Erler ,  Steven Forde, University of North Texas
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:  

9780739106655


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   25 August 2003
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Ronald J. Pestritto ,  Thomas G. West ,  Edward J. Erler ,  Steven Forde, University of North Texas
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780739106655


ISBN 10:   0739106651
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   25 August 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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This volume makes a massive contribution to our understanding of the founding by emphasizing the social compact political theory behind the founding. This allows the various and thoughtful authors to be guided by those special qualities that inhere in the social compact theory--the ideas of nature, equality, liberty, and consent--and to interpret its meaning; this is the often forgotten, yet necessary, condition that helps explain how our constitutional democracy can work so well. I heartily recommend this volume to all students of the founding.--Schramm, Peter W.


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Ronald J. Pestritto is Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution at Hillsdale College and author of Founding the Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America (2000). Thomas G. West is professor of politics at the University of Dallas and director and senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. His book Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America (1997) won the 2000 Paolucci Book Award.

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