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Preferred term
American founding
Definition
- Among the politically active classes of late-eighteenth century America were well-educated men intimately familiar with the most important ancient pagan and modern European political theorists and leading thinkers in philosophy, British and international law, history, and theology (see, for example, the remarkably expansive list of texts included in James Madison's original plan for the Library of Congress). Yet, it would be wrong to assume that any of these authors largely shaped the political thinking of those Americans most active in molding the new state and national political institutions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; American Founding]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/American_founding
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