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First Looks: The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

The Lowest Price we could find is .00 .45 In The Liberal Tradition in America (1955), Louis Hartz first put forth his thesis that the American political tradition derives essentially from consensual liberal principles. The many detractors to this theory include Bernard Bailyn, who argued that preliberal, republican values initially held sway in eighteenth-century American politics. [...]
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