The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

This work won the 1970 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, and the 1970 John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical Association.

This text describes the evolution of political thought from the Declaration to the ratification of the Constitution. The author discusses the debate over Republicanism.This volume describes the evolution of political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution and in the process greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system. In a new preface, he discusses the debate over republicanism that has developed since the book's original publication by UNC Press in 1969.