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

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1086/675650

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