The social contract in America : from the revolution to the present age / Mark Hulliung.
Hulliung, Mark.
2007
JA84.U5 H84 2007 (Mapit)
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Title The social contract in America : from the revolution to the present age / Mark Hulliung.
Author Hulliung, Mark.
ISBN 9780700615407 (alk. paper)
0700615407 (alk. paper)
Imprint Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2007.
Language English
Description ix, 256 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number JA84.U5 H84 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.1/10973
Summary "Because most Americans believe that government requires the consent of the governed, the idea of the social contract may come as close to a public philosophy as we've ever had. And, as Mark Hulliung reminds us, we have frequently fought our greatest political battles by wielding one or another version of social contract theory. Hulliung's book is the first to examine the role of the social contract across the entire sweep of American history, well beyond the Revolution and Founding periods. While he pays close attention to the contested versions of the social contract from 1765 to 1861, he also underscores its relevance after the Civil War, from late nineteenth-century land reform to the rights revolution of the late twentieth century."--Book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-244) and index.
Series American political thought
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Principles, forms, and foundations : Social contracts in Revolutionary America
"Revolution principles" and forms of government
Principles and foundations
Social contracts in antebellum America : New tasks for Locke's contract
The social contract in the South
The social contract in the North
The right to land in the land of rights : Agrarianism and "Revolution principles"
Philosophers and agrarians
To the Homestead Act
Henry George in America and Europe
Burke in America? : In the beginning: the Revolution and the founding
Chronicles of the Adams family
Burke as Yankee and as cavalier
Woodrow Wilson and Edmund Burke
The French disconnection
Declarations of Independence : Declarations in 1689, 1776, 1789
The Declaration as inclusion
Taming the Declaration
The vanishing Declaration
The end of the social contract? : Before, during, and after the Civil War
From agrarianism to progressivism
Fragmentation and dilution.

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