Jefferson, Madison, and the making of the Constitution /

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Author / Creator:	Broadwater, Jeff, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826 -- Political and social views. Madison, James, -- 1751-1836 -- Political and social views. Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826. Madison, James, -- 1751-1836. United States. -- Constitution. Constitution (United States) Constitutional history -- United States. Constitutional history. Political and social views. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12353230

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ISBN:	9781469651026 1469651025 9781469651033 1469651033 9781469651019 1469651017
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 29, 2019).
Summary:	"Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies. Yet historians have often seen a tension between the idealistic rhetoric of the Declaration and the more pedestrian language of the Constitution. Moreover, to some, the adoption of the Constitution represented a repudiation of the democratic values of the Revolution. In this book, Jeff Broadwater explores the evolution of the constitutional thought of these two seminal American figures, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the adoption of the Bill of Rights"--

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