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Six characters in search of a republic: studies in the political thought of the American colonies
In: A Harvest book 79
War, Depression, and the Presidency, 1933-50
In: Social research: an international quarterly, Band 82, Heft 1, S. 219
ISSN: 0037-783X
Impact of Mobilization on the Constitutional System
In: Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 60
LAWRENCE HENRY GIPSON. The Coming of the Revolution, 1763-1775. Pp. xiv, 287. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1954. $5.00
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 299, Heft 1, S. 156-157
ISSN: 1552-3349
American conservatism: with radicalism out of fashion and liberalism out of office, the political and ideological right bear close examination
In: The new leader: a biweekly of news and opinion, S. 16-20
ISSN: 0028-6044
Politics and the Constitution - * William W. Crosskey: Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States. 2 Vols. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953. Pp. xi, 1410. $20.00.)
In: The review of politics, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 237-241
ISSN: 1748-6858
The Intellectuals - * Peter Viereck: Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals. (Boston: The Beacon Press, 1953. Pp. xvi, 320. $4.00.)
In: The review of politics, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 541-543
ISSN: 1748-6858
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana. By Russell Kirk. (Chicago: Henry Regnery Co.1953. Pp. 458. $6.50.)
In: American political science review, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 868-870
ISSN: 1537-5943
The Political Theory of the American Revolution
In: The review of politics, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 97-108
ISSN: 1748-6858
The American Revolution was an event of particular interest to political theorists. Although it produced no thinkers to stand with Aristotle or even Locke and no book to be compared with The Republic or even The Prince, it was a high point in the long and fascinating career of the school of natural law. For this reason, the political theory of the Revolution deserves a more precise rendition than it has hitherto received. My purpose in this article is to do just that: to outline the theory of the Revolution for the benefit of political theorists and intellectual historians. Rather than quote from scattered sources, I shall attempt to express the general sense of the leaders of the Revolution. If one able Revolutionist had set himself consciously to express the political consensus of his time, to cast the principles of 1776 in a pattern for later ages to inspect and ponder, this might well have been the outline he would have chosen to follow—this was the political theory of the American Revolution:The political and social world is governed by laws as certain and universal as those that govern the physical world. Whether these laws are direct commands of God, necessities of nature, or simply inescapable lessons of history makes very little practical difference. In any or all of these cases, men are guided and restricted by a moral order that they can defy but not alter. Revelation, reason, and experience, means through which men come to understand these laws, point out at least four instances in which they are applicable to the affairs of men. The higher law, or law of nature, is all of these things: