"Where students of the American founding are inclined to dispute whether the Revolution was liberal, republican, or merely confused, [the author] demonstrates that the American regime embodies an uneasy, fragile, and carefully worked-out compromise between the enlightened despotism espoused by Thomas Hobbes and the classical republicanism defended by Pericles and Demosthenes"--Back cover.
year: 1994
call number/section: 321.8
subjects: political science, united states, history, 18th century, republicanism, greece, united states, politics and government, 1775-1783, history, 1775-1783, revolution