Abstract

CORCHO HERNANDEZ, David. The Founding of the United States and the Decline of Classical Political Thought. Secuencia [online]. 2021, n.111, e1859.  Epub Sep 27, 2021. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i111.1859.

This article analyzes the way the expansion of trade and manufacturing affected classical political thinking during the last stage of the Thirteen Colonies and the early years of the United States of America. Using a combination of historical analysis and political theory, the author observes the changes caused by commercial society in key aspects of classical political thought, such as representation, property, freedom, and the meaning of history. Its main contribution is to find the causes of these doctrinal transformations in extra-discursive factors since much of the bibliography on the history of political ideas at this stage focuses on “languages” and “ideologies”.

Keywords : history of political languages; republicanism; classical political thought; Thirteen Colonies; american revolution.

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