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The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89

By Edmund S. Morgan

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780226923437, 9780226923420, 0226923428, 0226923436, 2012013927
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
629 kB (643973 bytes)
Series
The Chicago History of American Civilization
Edition
4
Pages
239\0
Topic
History
Time added
2022-11-11 13:25:21

Description

In The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that the founding fathers’ political philosophy was not grounded in theory, but rather grew out of their own immediate needs, Morgan paints a vivid portrait of how the founders’ own experiences shaped their passionate convictions, and these in turn were incorporated into the Constitution and other governmental documents. The Birth of the Republic is the classic account of the beginnings of the American government, and in this fourth edition the original text is supplemented with a new foreword by Joseph J. Ellis and a historiographic essay by Rosemarie Zagarri.

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