Hobbes and America – Exploring the Constitutional Foundations Coleman Paperback

Hobbes and America\nby Frank M. Coleman\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Frank M. Coleman\nTitle: Hobbes and America\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and political philosophy\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1977\nISBN-13: 9781442639287\nISBN-10: 1442639288\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThis path-breaking study seriously shakes the credibility of the prevalent interpretations of American government and politics. It exposes the real American constitutional morality, one embodied in a code adhered to by those in political life.\nFrank Coleman makes a persuasive case that the real roots of the American political system are in Hobbes, and not, as is usually thought, in Locke. He shows that a Hobbesian interpretation fits the transactional, b.