The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... effect , Jefferson's act of appropriation is part of the general refashioning of revolutionary achievement that compli- cates every literary and historical analysis of the period . More than forty years after the event , he suddenly ...
... effect , Jefferson's act of appropriation is part of the general refashioning of revolutionary achievement that compli- cates every literary and historical analysis of the period . More than forty years after the event , he suddenly ...
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... effect years of magnifying the overall document . The original framers reject the need for a Bill of Rights because , as Roger Sherman argues on September 12th , “ the State Declarations of Rights are not repealed by this Constitution ...
... effect years of magnifying the overall document . The original framers reject the need for a Bill of Rights because , as Roger Sherman argues on September 12th , “ the State Declarations of Rights are not repealed by this Constitution ...
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... effect of the well - ordered constitution , rather than the cause . " Adams and other early republican intellectuals use their readings in British empirical thought to claim that institutions , not the manners and morals of a people ...
... effect of the well - ordered constitution , rather than the cause . " Adams and other early republican intellectuals use their readings in British empirical thought to claim that institutions , not the manners and morals of a people ...
Contents
What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
Copyright | |
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