Six Characters in Search of a Republic: Studies in the Political Thought of the American ColoniesRevised version of Part II of [the author's] Seedtime of the Republic. |
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... ideas in writing to be judged a seri- ous political or social thinker . Others - John Woolman of New Jersey ( 1720-1772 ) , Anthony Benezet of Pennsyl- vania ( 1713-1784 ) , Christopher Sower ( Sauer ) of Penn- sylvania ( 1693-1758 ) ...
... ideas in writing to be judged a seri- ous political or social thinker . Others - John Woolman of New Jersey ( 1720-1772 ) , Anthony Benezet of Pennsyl- vania ( 1713-1784 ) , Christopher Sower ( Sauer ) of Penn- sylvania ( 1693-1758 ) ...
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... ideas that can be properly termed political in character . His writings were occasional , polemic , and framed in the idiom of his age , all of which is another way of saying that he was the father of all American political thinkers ...
... ideas that can be properly termed political in character . His writings were occasional , polemic , and framed in the idiom of his age , all of which is another way of saying that he was the father of all American political thinkers ...
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... ideas for at least three other reasons . First , he was not just a libertarian but , as much as one could be in that time and place , a thoroughly democratic thinker . No other colonist , whether writer or man of affairs , was so bold ...
... ideas for at least three other reasons . First , he was not just a libertarian but , as much as one could be in that time and place , a thoroughly democratic thinker . No other colonist , whether writer or man of affairs , was so bold ...
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Apostle of Soul Liberty | 35 |
A Star of the First Magnitude | 79 |
Herald of Revolution | 116 |
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