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  • 6 - Republicanism in the Founding of America

  • from Part II - Case Studies in the Digital History of Ideas
  • Edited by Peter de Bolla, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
    Published online:
    09 November 2023
    Print publication:
    23 November 2023, pp 122-139

  • Summary

    Can the claim that the United States of America was founded on the principles of republicanism? This chapter uses digital humanities approaches and the tools developed by the Cambridge Concept Lab to pose this question, and it concludes that such a contention must be false. The chapter demonstrates that the idea of republicanism, as an ideology or set of beliefs about the nature of government and society was not availlable to the colonists at the time of the founding.