Toward a More Perfect Union
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Toward a More Perfect Union
| Full title | Toward a More Perfect Union: Writings of Herbert J. Storing |
|---|---|
| Author | Herbert J. Storing |
| Published | 1995 |
| Pages | 469 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Herbert Storing’s essays on the American founding, collected after his death. His characteristic move is to take the founders’ arguments seriously as political philosophy rather than rationalisations of interest — reading the Anti-Federalists as a coherent alternative vision and treating slavery and the founding’s compromises as problems internal to the founders’ own principles. |
Toward a More Perfect Union
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List (March 2026), under The American Experiment, where the curriculum moves from theories of the best regime to one actual constitutional design. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
About this edition
A posthumous collection edited by Joseph M. Bessette (AEI Press, 1995); the list prints the entry as “Storing/Bessette.”
Connections
- Government — the constitutional design the essays defend and criticise.
- Democracy — the founders’ republic as a contested answer to it.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.