James Madison is the thinker most responsible for laying the groundwork of the American commercial republic. But he did not anticipate that the propertied class

As recently as 2008, when Presidents Bush and Obama acted to bail out the nation’s crashing banks and failing auto companies, the perennial objection erupted

This book discusses the cultural intentions of the founders of the first thoroughly commercial republic, the United States. The typical book on 'the culture' ta

Contrary to most academic commentary on The Federalist, this book contends thatthe most significant teachings of the work did not have to do with the institutio