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Compromise and the American Founding

The Quest for the People's Two Bodies

By: Alin Fumurescu

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Compromise and the American Founding

The Quest for the People's Two Bodies

By: Alin Fumurescu

Why is today's political life so polarized? This book analyzes the ways in which the divergent apprehensions of both 'compromise' and the 'people' in seventeenth-century England and France became intertwined once again during the American founding, sometimes with bloody results. Looking at key-moments of the founding, from the first Puritan colonies to the beginning of the Civil War, this book offers answers of contemporary relevance. It argues that Americans unknowingly combined two understandings of the people: the early modern idea of a collection of individuals ruled by a majority of wills and the classic understanding of a corporation hierarchically structured and ruled by reason for the common good. Americans were then able to implement the paradigm of the 'people's two bodies'. Whenever the dialectic between the two has been broken, the results had have a major impact on American politics. Born by accident, this American peculiarity has proven to be a long-lasting one.

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1108245005

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Compromise

A Political and Philosophical History

By: Alin Fumurescu

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Compromise

A Political and Philosophical History

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This book offers a conceptual history of compromise demonstrating the connection between understandings of compromise and understandings of political representation.

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1107029430

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9781107029439

Foundations of American Political Thought

Readings and Commentary

By: Alin Fumurescu,Anna Marisa Schön

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Foundations of American Political Thought

Readings and Commentary

By: Alin Fumurescu,Anna Marisa Schön

This collection of primary sources from the founding period covers the unique combination of theoretical influences in American political thought.

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1108489184

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9781108489188

Compromise and the American Founding

By: Alin Fumurescu

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An original interpretation of 'the people's two bodies' that illuminates the opposite attitudes toward compromise throughout the American founding.

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1108415873

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Compromise

A Political and Philosophical History

By: Alin Fumurescu

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A Political and Philosophical History

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This book offers a conceptual history of compromise demonstrating the connection between understandings of compromise and understandings of political representation.

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