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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
1 On women and eighteenth-century natural rights philosophy, see Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1980), and Ellen DuBois, Feminism and Suffrage (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978), esp. at 42–46; on patriarchalism and the liberal tradition, cf. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Private Man, Public Woman (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980), at 100–147; on the concept of “independence” in nineteenth-century “free labor” ideology, see Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men (New York: Oxford, 1970).Google Scholar
2 Mark Tushnet, The Republican Synthesis and Judicial Biography, 1985 A.B.F. Res. J. 911; important benchmarks in the recent generation of literature are Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), and J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975).Google Scholar
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