An original interpretation of 'the people's two bodies' that illuminates the opposite attitudes toward compromise throughout the American founding.

John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, Bingham wrot

This book provides a complete overview of the Founders' natural rights theory and its policy implications.

This volume presents the documents necessary to understand the essential ideas and debates that shaped the founding of the American civic order. It beings with

In this persuasive work of intellectual history, Lucas E. Morel argues that the most important influence on Abraham Lincoln’s political thought and practice w