Reason and Republicanism: Thomas Jefferson's Legacy of Liberty

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Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble
Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 325 pages
An international collection of the world's most distinguished historians and political philosophers takes a fresh look at the political, legal, and philosophical contributions of Thomas Jefferson. The insightful essays analyze and illuminate the sophisticated layers of the political and legal thought of America's most influential and intellectually complex Founder. With contributors that include Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Morton Frisch, Paul Rahe, James Stoner, Robert K. Faulkner, John Zvesper, Howard Temperly, Robert A. Rutland, Raoul Berger, Colin Bonwick, Peter Parish, Jeffrey Sedgwick, J. R. Pole, Richard King, and Jean M. Yarborough, this is essential reading for historians and political philosophers.

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Introduction
Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Philosophy
9
Jefferson on Liberal Natural Rights
11
Jefferson and the Enlightened Science of Liberty
27
Jeffersons Machiavellian Moment
49
Jefferson and Slavery A Study in Moral Perplexity
79
Thomas Jefferson the Common Law and Constitutionalism
95
Sound Whigs or Honeyed Tories? Jefferson and the Common Law Tradition
97
A Respectful Revisionism Lincoln and the Jeffersonian Legacy in the Civil War Era
161
Jeffersonianism in the Progressive Era
181
Jeffersonianism and the New Deal
197
Thomas Jefferson and the Pursuit of Equality in American Politics
209
Jefferson and the Pursuit of Equality
211
Civil Rights and Civil Religion The Jeffersonian Legacy
223
Women and Equality Promise or Deception?
243
The Moral Sense Character Formation and Virtue
263

Jeffersons Greatest Vision The Promise of the Bill of Rights
113
Jefferson and the Law
127
Thomas Jefferson and the Pursuit of Equality in American History
141
Jefferson as Nationalist
143

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Gary L. McDowell is professor of American studies and director of the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London. Sharon L. Noble is a research associate at the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London.

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