History of American Political Thought

This book is a collection of secondary essays on America's most important philosophic thinkers--statesmen, judges, writers, educators, and activists--from the colonial period to the present. Each essay is a comprehensive introduction to the thought of a noted American on the fundamental meaning of the American regime.

Preface and Acknowledgments

xi

Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga

Introduction: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America

1

(24)

Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop

PART ONE: FROM COLONY TO NATION (1608-1776)

1 John Winthrop, John Cotton, and Nathaniel Niles: The Basic Principles of Puritan Political Thought

25

(19)

Michael J. Rosano

2 Thomas Hutchinson and James Otis on Sovereignty, Obedience, and Rebellion

44

(19)

Howard L. Lubert

3 Thomas Paine: The American Radical

63

(17)

John Koritansky

4 Benjamin Franklin: A Model American and an American Model

80

(15)

Steven Forde

PART TWO: THE NEW REPUBLIC (1776-1820)

5 Liberty, Constitutionalism, and Moderation: The Political Thought of George Washington

95

(19)

Paul O. Carrese

6 John Adams and the Republic of Laws

114

(18)

Richard Samuelson

7 Legitimate Government, Religion, and Education: The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson

132

(17)

Aristide Tessitore

8 The Political Science of James Madison

149

(12)

Michael P. Zuckert

9 Alexander Hamilton on the Strategy of American Free Government

161

(31)

Karl-Friedrich Walling

10 America's Modernity: James Wilson on Natural Law and Natural Rights

192

(24)

Eduardo A. Velasquez

11 Anti-Federalist Political Thought: Brutus and The Federal Farmer

216

(14)

Murray Dry

12 The New Constitutionalism of Publius

230

(18)

James R. Stonen, Jr.

13 Union, Constitutionalism, and the Judicial Defense of Rights: John Marshall

248

(23)

Matthew J. Franck

PART THREE: A DIVIDED NATION (1820-1865)

14 John Quincy Adams on Principle and Practice

271

(16)

David Tucker

15 Union and Liberty: The Political Thought of Daniel Webster

287

(15)

Sean Mattie

16 Henry Clay and the Statesmanship of Compromise

302

(14)

Kimberly C. Shankman

17 John C. Calhoun and the Reexamination of American Democracy

316

(9)

John Agresto

18 The Art of the Judge: Justice Joseph Story and the Founders' Constitution

325

(17)

Peter Schotten

19 James Fenimore Cooper: Nature and Nature's God

342

(13)

John E. Alvis

20 Religion, Nature, and Disobedience in the Thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

355

(21)

Bryan-Paul Frost

21 "Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land": Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Abolition of Slavery

376

(19)

Richard S. Ruderman

22 Abraham Lincoln: The Moderation of a Democratic Statesman

395

(24)

Steven Kautz

PART FOUR: GROWTH OF AN EMPIRE (1865-1945)

23 Feminism as an American Project: The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

419

(11)

Melissa S. Williams

24 Mark Twain on the American Character

430

(21)

David Foster

25 Pricking the Bubble of Utopian Sentiment: The Political Thought of William Graham Sumner

451

(13)

Lance Robinson

26 Booker T. Washington and the "Severe American Crucible"

464

(15)

Peter W. Schramm

27 Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: W.E.B. Du Bois's Vision of Race Synthesis

479

(12)

Jonathan Marks

28 Henry Adams and Our Ancient Faith

491

(13)

Christopher Flannery

29 Jane Addams as Civic Theorist: Struggling to Reconcile Competing Claims

504

(17)

Jean Bethke Elshtain

30 Herbert Croly's Progressive "Liberalism"

521

(15)

Thomas S. Engeman

31 Theodore Roosevelt and the Stewardship of the American Presidency

536

(13)

Jean M. Yarbrough

32 Woodrow Wilson, the Organic State, and American Republicanism

549

(20)

Ronald J. Pestritte

33 The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis

569

(16)

David F. Forte

34 John Dewey's Alternative Liberalism

585

(13)

David Fott

35 Franklin Delane Roosevelt and the Second Bill of Rights

598

(19)

Donald R. Brand

PART FIVE: NEW CHALLENGES AT HOME AND ABROAD (1945-present)

36 Ayn Rand: Radical for Capitalism

617

(16)

William Thomas

37 Walker Percy's American Thomism

633

(13)

Peter Augustine Lawler

38 Russell Kirk's Anglo-American Conservatism

646

(20)

James McClellan

39 The Two Revolutions of Martin Luther King, Jr.

666

(21)

Peter C. Myers

40 Malcolm X: From Apolitical Acolyte to Political Preacher

687

(4)

Lucas E. Morel

41 Betty Frielan and Gloria Steinern: The Popular Transformation of American Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

691

(22)

Natalie Taylor and Daryl McGowan Tress

42 John Rawls's "Democratic" Theory of Justice

713

(20)

David Lewis Schaefer

43 Henry Kissinger: The Challenge of Statesmanship in Liberal Democracy

733

(21)

Peter Josephson

44 Irving Kristol and the Reinvigoration of Bourgeois Republicanism

754

(18)

Laurence D. Cooper

45 The Jurisprudence of William Joseph Brennan, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall

772

(15)

Bradley C.S. Watson

46 The Textualist Jurisprudence of Antonin Scalia

787

(18)

Ralph A. Rossum

Index

805

(20)

About the Editors and Contributors

825

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