Table of Contents

Introduction by J. Jackson Barlow and Ken Masugi The Classical Spirit of the Founding by Thomas G. West The Founders and the Classics by Charles R. Kesler Locke and the Problem of Civil Religion by Michael Zuckert Equality and the Founding by Henry V. Jaffa Revolutionary Thoughts in the Founding by Marvin Meyers Fundamental Laws and Individual Rights in the 18th Century Constitution by Gerald Stourzh Natural Right in the American Founding by Edward J. Erler The Collapse of the Articles of Confederation by Jack N. Rakove America and the Enlightenment by Henry Steele Commager Thomas Jefferson, The Founders, and Constitutional Change by Merrill D. Peterson The Bill of Rights by Leonard W. Levy Bibliography Index About the Editors & Contributors

About the Author

J. JACKSON BARLOW is Director of Higher Education Programs, Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.

LEONARD W. LEVY is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Chairman of the History Department, Claremont Graduate School.

KEN MASUGI is Special Assistant to the Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Reviews

?The American Founding joins the other fine anthologies celebrating the Constitution's bicentennial. The essays demonstrate how the Founding Fathers put political principles into political practice, thereby enhancing our knowledge of the Political Science of the American Founding.'?-Wisconsin Magazine of History

"The American Founding joins the other fine anthologies celebrating the Constitution's bicentennial. The essays demonstrate how the Founding Fathers put political principles into political practice, thereby enhancing our knowledge of the Political Science of the American Founding.'"-Wisconsin Magazine of History