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Title: Essays by "The Free Republican," 1784-1786
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 0865978026
EAN: 9780865978027
ISBN: 9780865978027
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 26/09/2016
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 190mm
Item Length: 121mm
Item Weight: 148g
Author: Benjamin Lincoln
Contributor: Philip C Mead (Edited by), Gordon S Wood (Edited by)
Genre: Business & Finance
Description: This is the first modern edition of ten essays published in 17841786 in the popular Boston newspaper The Independent chronicle, a newspaper whose publication was a significant intellectual event in Massachusetts politics. The essays deal with the problem of mixed government in a republic. Lincoln writes, Two distinct and different orders of men seems incident to every society, two contending interests, fed by a spirit of jealousy and distrust, would always be in dispute with one another. Whether the parties to the contents style themselves the Rich and the Poor, the Great and the Small, the High and the Low, the Elders and People, Patricians and Plebeians, Nobility and Commons, still, the Free Republican writes, the source and effects of the dispute are the same. Lincolns essays anticipate John Adams Defence of the American Constitution (1787) on every major point. The editors believe that Lincolns essays grew out of a conversation that Massachusetts people were having about the problem of a bicameral legislature in a republic. The publication of these essays may provoke an entirely new appraisal of the political thinking of the founding era.
Release Year: 2016

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