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1993 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Thomas Jefferson’s Constitutional System: Bad Law; Good Economics

verfasst von : M. L. Burstein

Erschienen in: Understanding Thomas Jefferson

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Should obscure transactions with divine entities or fictions about barbarian liberty bottom political theory? The political philosophies of Hobbes, Filmer, Locke, et al. seem untenable. And I prefer David Hume’s calm “scepticism,” leading to his empirical political theory, to Sir Edward Coke’s Whiggish myths, enshrined by Lord Macaulay.

Metadaten
Titel
Thomas Jefferson’s Constitutional System: Bad Law; Good Economics
verfasst von
M. L. Burstein
Copyright-Jahr
1993
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13115-0_3

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