Harrington And His Oceana; A Study Of A 17th Century Utopia And Its Influence In America by Francis Russell
A Study of a 17th Century Utopia and Its Influence in America
Analyzes James Harrington’s 17th-century republican treatise in its English context, explaining its program of agrarian balance, rotation and ballot, a deliberative senate paired with a deciding popular assembly, and reliance on a citizen militia, then follows the transmission of these ideas to the American colonies through Commonwealthmen and Whig channels, showing how they informed Revolutionary-era discourse and elements of early constitutional design—especially bicameralism, separation of functions, term limits, and civic virtue—while weighing the scope, pathways, and limits of that influence.
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- 1914
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