American Government and Citizenship

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Excerpt from American Government and Citizenship: American Political Theory, Government and Politics, International RelationsThus the Constitution was, in some respects, an excursion into the unknown. The Fathers did rely on reason when experience failed them. Hence any interpretation of their work that is to rise above mere description will have to take into account their rational princi ples of government, that is to say, their political theory. Experience was the raw material with which they worked, but in shaping this material into beautiful and permanent form they were guided by cer tain great architectonic principles for which they were indebted to political theory. There were many compromises, indeed, the actual Constitution was, in a sense, heated in the forge of con¿icting inter ests and hammered out on the anvil of mutual concessions. But ever and anon there was a recourse to first principles. The framers never got entirely away from the great fundamentals of political philosophy, such as equality, sovereignty, liberty, and democracy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.