Between Liberty and Stability - John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Enduring Difficulty of Building

John Adams'' and Thomas Jefferson''s political careers spanned the most formidable times of the early republic. They worked together to draft the Declaration of Independence only to become bitter political rivals, serving as the candidates of the first American political parties and competing in the first competitive presidential election. Most accounts of their relationship tend to focus on their political rivalry and the politics of the Federalists and Republicans. Beyond their political disputes, however, is a more complex intellectual relationship, including both disagreements and fundamental agreements on liberty and regime building. Between Liberty and Stability: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Enduring Difficulty of Building and Maintaining a Regime gives much needed attention to their decades-long intellectual relationship to appreciate the full scope of their political thought within the context of the history of political thought and their distinct understanding of how to establish a functional liberal political order. Beyond their politics are important philosophic discussions that can help understand and reevaluate even contemporary commitments to a liberal political order.>

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• Authors: Bruce A Hunt, Bruce A. Hunt, Robert E Ross, Robert E. Ross
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 16.04.2026
• EAN: 9798765189023
• ISBN: 9798765189023
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political leaders & leadership, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms