The English Radical Whig Origins of American Constitutionalism
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The English Radical Whig Origins of American Constitutionalism
| Author | David N. Mayer |
|---|---|
| Published | 1992 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | David N. Mayer’s law-review article tracing the framers’ vocabulary — mixed government, standing armies, corruption, the balanced constitution — back to the English radical Whig opposition writers, and arguing that reading the founding as republican rather than Whig has misled a generation of interpretation. |
The English Radical Whig Origins of American Constitutionalism
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List (March 2026), in The American Experiment section among the works on where the founders’ ideas came from, next to Pocock’s Machiavellian Moment and Storing on the Anti-Federalists — the list deliberately includes the argument against the republican reading. The full list is on The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the list this came from.
What links here
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