The Founders And The Idea Of A National University: Constituting The American Mind

Constituting the American Mind is about early efforts to establish a national university and what those efforts say about the nature and logic of American Constitutionalism. This book offers the first in depth study of the efforts to establish a national university from a constitutional perspective. While mostly noted in passing, the national university was put forward by every president from Washington to John Quincy Adams as a necessary supplement to the formal institutions of government; it would help constitute the American mind in a manner that carried forward the ideas the constitution rested on including, for example, the separation of the civic" from the "theological.""--

• • Author: George Thomas
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Nov 28, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 252 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1107083435
• • ISBN-13: 9781107083431