Studies of Republicanism

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Studies of Republicanism
Language of revolution not Lockean liberalism
concerned only with property rights popular
democracy Most leaders adhered to spoke of
civic humanism or classical republicanism
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Rejected Monarchism Mixed Government based on the
pursuit of civic virtue. View of Liberty differed
from Liberalism Non-Domination vs.
Non-Interference
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Big Question
Where did liberal, commercial, democratic,
money-loving America come from? Mixed society
with diverse interests goals We cant place a
whole society into a neat ideological box
Joyce Appleby (2000)
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Time of Immense Change
America may have been still largely rural, still
largely agricultural, but now it was also largely
commercial, perhaps the most thoroughly
commercialized nation in the world. Buying
selling became the universal ambition to get
forward.
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Entrepreneurial Explosion
A half dozen business corporations during
colonial period In only a few decades there were
hundreds
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Consumer RevolutionPopulation Growth
MovementPolitical Participation
DemocratizedModern Christian Denominationalism
Social Revolution
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Society by the 1820s
People Frightened Society Exploding in all
directions Growing Moving Westward People carried
along on a stream America not classical Rome but
Ancient Greece