THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT FROM c.1700 TO c.1890

33B18. POLITICAL THOUGHTOF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONSuggested primary reading:J. Madison, A. Hamilton and J. Jay, The Federalist, ed. J.R. Pole (Indianapolis, 2004)H. J. Storing, The Complete Anti-Federalist, (Chicago, 1981)T. Paine, Common Sense, ed. I. Kramnick (Harmondsworth, 1976)T. Jefferson, Political Writings, J. Appleby and T. Ball eds., (Cambridge, 1999)Suggested secondary reading:P. B. Kurland and R. Lerner eds., The Founders’ Constitution, Vol. 1 Major Themes, (5vols., Chicago IL, 1987)The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and LettersDuring the Struggle over Ratification, The Library of America, vols. 62-63, (2 vols., NewYork, 1992)C. Hyneman and D. Lutz eds., American Political Writing during the Founding Era 1760-1805, (2 vols., Indianapolis IN, 1983)B. Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, (Cambridge MA, 1967)J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the AtlanticRepublican Tradition, (Princeton NJ, 1975), Chapter 15.P. A. Rahe, Republics, Ancient and Modern. Volume III. Inventions of Prudence:Constituting the American Regime, (3 vols., Chapel Hill NC, 1994)B. Manin, The Principles of Representative Government, (Cambridge, 1997)P. N. Miller, Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in EighteenthCentury Britain, (Cambridge, 1994)G. S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787, (Williamsburg VA, 1969)G.S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, (Oxford, 2010)S. Beer, To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism, (Cambridge MA, 1993)D. F. Epstein, The Political Theory of ‘The Federalist’, (Chicago, 1984)J. Storing, What the Anti-Federalists Were For (Chicago IL, 1981)M. J. C. Vile, Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers, 2nd edn., (Indianapolis IN,1998), chapter 6 ‘The Doctrine of America’, pp. 131-192.L. Banning, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the FederalRepublic, (Ithaca NY, 1995)C. A. Sheehan, James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government (Cambridge,2009)E. Nelson, The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Cambridge, 2004), chapter 6 ‘TheGreek Tradition and the American Founding’, pp. 195-233.L. Banning, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology, (Ithaca NY, 1974)P. S. Onuf, Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood, (Charlottesville VA,2000)D. N. Mayer, The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson, (Charlottesville VA, 1994)T. S. Engeman ed., Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature, (Notre Dame IN, 2000)G. L. McDowell and S. L. Noble, Reason and Republicanism: Thomas Jefferson’s Legacyof Liberty, (Lanham MD, 1997)G. S. Wood, ‘The American Enlightenment’, in G. McDowell and J. O’Neill (eds), Americaand Enlightenment Constitutionalism, (Basinstoke, 2006), pp. 159–75.G. S. Wood, ‘The American Revolution’, in Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler (eds), TheCambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge 2006), ch.21.