Revolutionary Values for a New Millennium: John Adams, Adam Smith, and Social VirtueLexington Books, 2000 - 233 pages In his study, Hill challenges common interpretations of the political thought of Adams and Smith, providing scholars and students with an engaging and novel portrait of social and political theory in America, at its founding and at the inception of the twenty-first century. |
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Page 44
... Colonies are much fewer in Proportion than in N. England . Gentlemen in other Colonies , have large Plantations of slaves , and the common People among them are very ignorant and very poor . These Gentlemen are accustomed , habituated ...
... Colonies are much fewer in Proportion than in N. England . Gentlemen in other Colonies , have large Plantations of slaves , and the common People among them are very ignorant and very poor . These Gentlemen are accustomed , habituated ...
Page 45
... Colonies , and a Continental Constitution for the whole , each Colony should establish its own Government , and then a League should be formed , between them all . This can be done only on popular Principles and Maxims which are so ...
... Colonies , and a Continental Constitution for the whole , each Colony should establish its own Government , and then a League should be formed , between them all . This can be done only on popular Principles and Maxims which are so ...
Page 86
... colonies over many decades from initial settlement up to the revolutionary era , Americans were very community oriented ... colonial America . Crevecoeur , a Frenchman who lived in the United States during the revolutionary era and wrote ...
... colonies over many decades from initial settlement up to the revolutionary era , Americans were very community oriented ... colonial America . Crevecoeur , a Frenchman who lived in the United States during the revolutionary era and wrote ...
Contents
Revolutionary Values | 21 |
Virtues for Democratic Citizens | 59 |
Individuality within Communities | 83 |
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