Beschreibung:
Garrett Ward Sheldon is the John Morton Beaty Professor of Political Science and chair of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Virginias College at Wise. Charles William Hill, Jr. is the Henry H. and Trudye Fowler Professor of Public Affairs at Roanoke College.
This book is the first comprehensive chronological study of the works of a significant but little-known figure in early American history. A confidant of Thomas Jefferson, John Taylor of Caroline County, Virginia (1735-1824) represented the anti-Federalist position during the Constitutional debates and wrote extensively on government, economics, slavery, and liberty in each republic. Taylor's ideology blends Lockean liberal and Classical Republican ideas. This study fills an important gap in our understanding of early American political thought.