Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
2-2014
Abstract
The relationship between American political thought (APT) and American political development (APD) as phenomena as well as subfields in American Politics has not been sufficiently theorized. This essay takes up what I call the Second Founding of 1787–89 as the critical case for examining the close relationship between APT and APD. The statesmen of that era were thinkers and developmentalists of the first order; they understood the inseparable link between political justification and political change. This dynamic relationship between American political thought and development practiced in 1787–89 can be used as a blueprint for understanding the entwined cycles of political justification and change in American politics.
Discipline
American Politics | Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
American Political Thought
Volume
3
Issue
1
First Page
146
Last Page
156
ISSN
2161-1580
Identifier
10.1086/675650
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Citation
LIM, Elvin T..(2014). Political thought, political development, and America’s two foundings. American Political Thought, 3(1), 146-156.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2813
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1086/675650