The Foundations of American Citizenship —— Liberalism, the Constitution, and Civic Virtue

----- 美国公民身份的基础：自由主义，宪法和公民道德

ISBN: 9780195070675 出版年：1992 页码：224 Sinopoli, Richard C Oxford University Press

This study of exemplary writings from the debates over the ratification of the 1787 Constitution deals with the American constitutional founders' understandings of citizenship and civic virtue. Discussion of these debates is set in an analytical and historical context, addressing the rationales for and the nature of civic allegiance in liberal political regimes. Sinopoli analyzes the development of a distinctly liberal political psychology from its origins in John Locke, Adam Smith, and David Hume through the American founding and traces its implications for the current American polity.