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Debating the Founding

From the May 1998 Print Edition

The Natural Rights Republic By Michael Zuckert University of Notre Dame Press 304 pp. $34.95 In The Natural Rights Republic , Michael Zuckert takes up a question that has long divided American historians and political philosophers: “Was the American founding inspired by classical republican, . . . . Continue Reading »