/u/Isatis_tinctoria's posts in /r/askhistorians
Is there a complete list of books that Thomas Jefferson sent James Madison from Paris in preparation for the Constitutional Convention? And perhaps an explanation why Jefferson sent those specific books? I think looking at those books would shed light on James Madison's views on the Constitution.
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How did John Locke’s Constitution of Carolina influence the Carolinas throughout their history? Did Locke resonate even up to the Nullification Crisis and the Civil War?
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Was the end of the French Ancien Régieme in the reign of terror inevitable? Didn’t the lawyers who ran the reign of terror read and recite Rousseau and Montesquieu? Those philosophers preached peace, right?
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