This volume describes the evolution of political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution and in the process greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system. In a new preface, he discusses the debate over republicanism that has developed since the book's original publication by UNC Press in 1969.

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Paperback, 18th Edition

ISBN13: 9780807847237

Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1998

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