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Vital remnants : America's founding and the Western tradition
- Title
- Vital remnants : America's founding and the Western tradition / edited by Gary L. Gregg II.
- Publication
- Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 1999.
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- Description
- xxx, 347 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "The insistence on America's freedom from tradition is itself an American tradition. However, this new volume presents another view, one in which the American ordo is not as new as we suppose. Vital Remnants explores the origins of the American experience in ordered liberty and finds that the taproot of our constitutional order is sunk deep into the history of the West." "America's founding generation was learned in the history and literature of the West and steeped in the English tradition of liberty. Vital Remnants revisits for a new generation the sources of America's greatness and suggests means to restore our weakened foundations."--Jacket.
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- Genre/Form
- Congress
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Congresses.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- Based on lectures presented at a conference held in Williamsburg, Va. in June 1998, sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Is America an experiment? / Wilfred M. McClay -- Founders as farmers : the Greek Georgic tradition and the founders / Bruce S. Thornton -- Open shutters on the past : Rome and the Founders / E. Christian Kopff -- Virtue and the Constitution : Augustinian theology and the frame of American common sense / Graham Walker -- Natural law, the Constitution, and the theory and practice of judicial review / Robert P. George -- Christianity, the common law, and the Constitution / James R. Stoner, Jr. -- Liberty and license : the American Founding and the Western conception of freedom / Barry Alan Shain -- The Founding and the Enlightenment : two theories of sovereignty / Donald W. Livingston -- Revolutions, not made, but prevented : 1776, 1688, and the triumph of the Old Whigs / Bruce Frohnen -- The therapeutic threat to human liberty : pragmatism vs. conservatism on America and the West today / Peter Augustine Lawler.
- ISBN
- 1882926315
- 9781882926312
- LCCN
- 99071451
- OCLC
- ocm42192672
- 42192672
- SCSB-868566
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library