John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic
Review of Metaphysics, The › Vol. 62 Nbr. 2, December 2008
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[...] Witherspoon's students also included twelve members of the Continental Congress, a handful of delegates to the Constitutional Convention, forty-nine congressmen, twenty-eight senators, three Supreme Court justices, eight U.S. district judges, a secretary of state, as well as a couple foreign ministers, and dozens of political leaders at the state level. The book's second chapter, "The Public Interest of Religion," details features of Witherspoon's political theology, the heart of which rested upon his conviction that orthodox Christianity was a necessary prerequisite to civic happiness.
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John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic
MORRISON, Jeffry H. John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xv + 220 pp. Cloth, $22.50-Every U. S. citizen should remember and honor the important American founding fathers, their ideas, and their achievements. Why then, wonders Jeffry Morrison, is John Witherspoon (1723-1794) the "forgotten founder," as the ti...
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