Understanding the founding : the crucial questions / Alan Gibson.
2010
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Author
Title
Understanding the founding : the crucial questions / Alan Gibson.
Published
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Call Number
KF4541 .G534 2010
Edition
Second edition, revised and expanded.
ISBN
9780700617524 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0700617523 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780700617517 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700617515 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700617523 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780700617517 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700617515 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
x, 418 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)643569866
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-404) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
ix
Introduction to the Second Edition
1
1.
Still Hazy after All These Years: The Economic Interpretation and the Cloudy Legacy of Empirical Analysis
19
Beard's Thesis: An Interpretation
21
The Case against Beard's Economic Interpretation
24
Recasting the Economic Interpretation
33
Conclusions and Inconclusiveness: What Empirical Analysis Has and Has Not Established
42
2.
Democracy and the Founders' Constitution: Toward a Balanced Assessment
50
The Contours of the Continuing Confrontation
50
Confronting the Hermeneutic Impasse
53
The Strategy and Limitations of This Analysis
56
The Question of Inclusiveness
58
Accountability and Responsiveness
69
Political Equality and Apportionment
84
Thinking Clearly and Talking Intelligently about Democracy and Good Government
90
3.
How Should We Study the American Founding? In Defense of Historically Sensitive Political Philosophy
95
Bailyn and Wood: Enveloping Behavioralism and Idealism
97
Skinner: Challenging "Great Books" and "Perennial Questions"
104
Pocock: Studying Political Languages
108
The Contributions of the Linguistic Contextualists
112
The Inadequacies of Linguistic Contextualism
115
Interpreting the American Founding: Historical Integrity and the Paradox of Relevance
128
4.
Ancients, Moderns, and Americans: The Republicanism-Liberalism Debate Revisited
134
Transcending Republicanism versus Liberalism
134
The Multiple Traditions Approach: Alternative Interpretations of Interaction
136
Retrospect: What We Should Have Learned
148
Prospect: The Agenda for Scholars
160
5.
How Could They Have Done That? Slavery and the Question of Moral Responsibility
169
The Founders on Trial: The Academic Debate beneath the Culture Wars
169
Prosecutors: The Neo-Garrisonian Constitution and the Myth of the Anti-Slavery Jefferson
174
Vindicators: The Lincolnian Constitution, the Founders' Accomplishments, and the Case for the Anti-Slavery Jefferson
182
Historicists: The Founders' Moral Universe
190
Central Issues and Foundational Differences
203
The Case against Prosecuting and Vindicating
205
The Contributions and Limitations of Historicism
219
Toward More Responsible Moral Judgments
223
6.
Taking Historiography Seriously
231
Searching for the Essence of the American Amalgam: Which Traditions? Whose Multiple Traditions Approach?
234
Foundational Concepts and the Unionist Paradigm: The Continued Search for New Interpretive Categories
240
On the Founders' Contribution to the History of Political Thought
249
From Intention to Consequence: The Framers' Constitution and the Development and Character of American Democracy
257
Appropriate and Inappropriate Appropriations
268
Understanding the Founding
270
Notes
275
Bibliography
375
Index
405