Republicanism in the U.S.

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This paper considers the interdependence of republicanism and the birth of institutions in the young nation of America. It looks at the emergence of a new way of thinking in the colonists' minds before the Declaration of Independence and attempts to understand why the Articles of Confederation failed to unit the young nation under a Republican government. It also examines to what extent Constitution-making was the achievement of a clearly established definition of republicanism.

From the Paper:

" The philosophers of Enlightenment - as this term suggests - tried to get right to the bottom of natural and social state and to give a proper definition to the best instance of government. In order to do it, they studied for instance Athenian democracy and Roman Republic: the former governed by the people, the latter by a triumvirate. From these reflections, new ideologies were born such as liberalism or republicanism. And we will try see to what extent this second ideology, that of republicanism played a role in the constitution-making of the United States, and even, previously, in the Declaration of Independence and the Revolution surrounding it. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• The Federalist Papers
• ADAMS Willi Paul, The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era, (Chapel Hill, 1980).
• APPLEBY Joyce, "The Social Origins of American Revolutionary Ideology", Journal of American History (1978).
• BAILYN Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (New York, 1967).
• BEEMAN Richard, BOTEIN Stephen and CARTER Edmund, eds., Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity (Chapel Hill, 1987).

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