Ebook: Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government: a Political Biography of Notes on the State of Virginia
Author: Gish Dustin A., Jefferson Thomas, Klinghard Daniel
- Tags: Political and social views, POLITICAL SCIENCE--History & Theory, Politics and government, Representative government and representation, Representative government and representation--United States--History, Republicanism, Republicanism--United States--History, Biography, History, Jefferson Thomas -- 1743-1826. -- Notes on the state of Virginia, Jefferson Thomas -- 1743-1826 -- Political and social views, Jefferson Thomas -- 1743-1826, Notes on the state of Virginia (Jefferson Thomas), Republicanism --
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- City: United States
- Language: English
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"This biography of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, his only published book, challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating its core political thought as well as the political aspirations behind its composition, publication and initial dissemination. Building upon a close reading of the book's contents, Jefferson's correspondence and the first comprehensive examination of both its composition and publication history, the authors argue that Jefferson intended his Notes to be read by a wide audience, especially in America, in order to help shape constitutional debates in the critical period of the 1780s. Jefferson, through his determined publication and distribution of his Notes even while serving as American ambassador in Paris, thus brought his own constitutional and political thought into the public sphere - and at times into conflict with the writings of John Adams and James Madison, stimulating a debate over the proper form of Republican constitutionalism that still reverberates in American political thought"--;"This biography of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, his only published book, challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating its core political thought as well as the political aspirations behind its composition, publication, and initial dissemination. Building upon a close reading of the book's contents, Jefferson's correspondence, and the first comprehensive examination of both its composition and publication history, the authors argue that Jefferson intended his Notes to be read by a wide audience, especially in America, in order to help shape constitutional debates in the critical period of the 1780s. Jefferson, through his determined publication and distribution of his Notes even while serving as American ambassador in Paris, thus brought his own constitutional and political thought into the public sphere - and at times into conflict with the writings of John Adams and James Madison, stimulating a debate over the proper form of republican constitutionalism that still reverberates in American political thought"--;Part I. Origins and influences -- Part II. Interpretation -- Part III. Publication and reception.
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