Author: Christopher Collier
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Mark David Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019992984X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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One of leading figures of his day, Roger Sherman was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and an influential delegate at the Constitutional Convention. As a Representative and Senator in the new republic, he had a hand in determining the proper scope of the national government's power as well as drafting the Bill of Rights. In Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic, Mark David Hall explores Sherman's political theory and shows how it informed his many contributions to America's founding. A close examination of Sherman's religious beliefs provides insight into how those beliefs informed his political actions. Hall shows that Sherman, like many founders, was influenced by Calvinist political thought, a tradition that played a role in the founding generation's opposition to Great Britain, and led them to develop political institutions designed to prevent corruption, promote virtue, and protect rights. Contrary to oft-repeated assertions that the founders advocated a strictly secular policy, Hall argues persuasively that most founders believed Christianity should play an important role in the new American republic.

Author: Kathy Furgang
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780823955930
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Recounts the life and accomplishments of Roger Sherman, the representative from Connecticut who helped create the Declaration of Independence.

Author: Roger Sherman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865978935
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Roger Sherman (1721-1793) was the only founder to sign the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. He served 1,543 days in the Continental Congress and was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence. At the Federal Convention of 1787 he spoke more times than all but three delegates and was the driving force behind the Connecticut Compromise. As a Representative and Senator in the new republic, he played critical roles in debates over the Bill of Rights, the assumption of state debts, and the creation of a national bank. He was also one of the leading political leaders in Connecticut for the latter part of the eighteenth century. Nevertheless, no book dedicated to his writings has ever been published. Collected Works of Roger Sherman brings together essays, documents, records of his remarks in the Constitutional Convention and in the First Federal Congress, and important representative letters Sherman wrote to a variety of correspondents, including: 1768 letter to William Samuel Johnson, emphasizing Parliament's limited authority over the colonies 1772 letter to the theologian Joseph Bellamy, criticizing Bellamy's position on a congregation's ability to fire its minister 1777 letter to Richard Henry Lee, addressing a number of economic issues 1789 series of letters between Sherman and John Adams, exploring the nature of republican government and the proper scope of presidential power. Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University. In addition to editing, with Kermit L. Hall, the Collected Works of James Wilson (Liberty Fund, 2007) and, with Daniel L. Dreisbach, The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding (Liberty Fund, 2009), he has written Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Author: Lewis Henry Boutell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: James D. Best
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1604943440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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The United States is on the brink of total collapse. The military has been reduced to near extinction, economic turmoil saps hope, and anarchy threatens as world powers hover like vultures, eager to devour the remains. In a desperate move, a few powerful men call a secret meeting to plot the overthrow of the government. Fifty-five men came to Philadelphia in May of 1787 with a congressional charter to revise the Articles of Confederation. Instead they founded the longest lasting republic in world history. Tempest at Dawn tells their story.

Author: David O. Stewart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743286936
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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A true-life suspense story, "The Summer of 1787" takes readers into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that had come to define the nation, then and now.

Author: Thomas Townsend Sherman
Publisher: New York : T.A. Wright
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: Roger Sherman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780911805017
Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Author: Colleen A. Sheehan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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There were many writers other than John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton who, in 1787 and 1788, argued for the Constitution's ratification. In a collection central to our understanding of the American founding, Friends of the Constitution brings together forty-nine of the most important of these "other" Federalists' writings. Colleen A. Sheehan is Professor of Political Science at Villanova University. Gary L. McDowell is the Tyler Haynes Interdisciplinary Professor of Leadership Studies, Political Science, and Law at the University of Richmond in Virginia. From 1992 to 2003 he was the Director of the Institute of United States Studies in the University of London.