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Title The Moral foundations of the American Republic / edited by Robert H. Horwitz ; Benjamin R. Barber ... [and others]
Edition Third edition
Published Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1986

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 W'PONDS  320.973 Hor/Mfo 1986  AVAILABLE
Description x, 347 pages ; 24 cm
Contents The moral foundations of the American republic : an introduction / Will Morrisey -- Of men and angels : a search for morality in the Constitution / Robert A. Goldwin -- The compromised republic : public purposelessness in America / Benjamin R. Barber -- The founding fathers : an age of realism / Richard Hofstadter -- Ethics and politics : the American way / Martin Diamond -- The democratization of mind in the American Revolution / Gordon S. Wood -- John Locke and the preservation of liberty : a perennial problem of civic education / Robert H. Horwitz -- The United States as regime and the sources of the American way of life / Joseph Cropsey -- John Locke and the problem of civil religion / Michael P. Zuckert -- Religion and the founding principle / Walter Berns -- On removing certain impediments to democracy in the United States / Robert A. Dahl -- In defense of Republican constitutionalism : a reply to Dahl / James W. Ceaser -- On equality as the moral foundation for community / Wilson Carey McWilliams -- Slavery and the moral foundations of the American republic / Herbert J. Storing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Political ethics -- United States.
SUBJECT United States -- Moral conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140383
United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
Author Horwitz, Robert H.
LC no. 85017772
ISBN 0813910811
081391082X (paperback)