Mailer, Gideon, <br/><br/>
John Witherspoon's American Revolution / 
Gideon Mailer. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 425 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/> "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia" --Title page. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Enlightenment and religion between Scotland and America -- "A road to distinction very different from that of his more successful companions": Augustinian piety in Witherspoon's Scotland -- "Of local and temporary reformation, local and occasional depravation": Kirk divisions and American prospects at midcentury -- "The bulwark of the religion and liberty of America": Presbyterian revivalism and American higher education before Witherspoon -- "All the conclusions drawn from these principles must be vague": American moral philosophy after Witherspoon -- "When their fathers have fallen asleep": domestic culture, public virtue, and the power of language -- "Every one of them full of the old Cameronian resisting sentiments": piety, Anglo-Scottish union, and American independence -- "How far the magistrate ought to interfere in matters of religion": public faith and the ambiguity of political representation after 1776 -- "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man": John Witherspoon, James Madison, and the American Zion": Presbyterian moral philosophy and educational conflict during the nineteenth century. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469628202 1469628201 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt1bnk37m  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Declaration of Independence --Signers--Biography.<br/>United States. Continental Congress --History.<br/>Princeton University--History--18th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States--Biography.<br/>Statesmen--United States--Biography.<br/>Church and state--History.--United States<br/>BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical<br/>HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General<br/>HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.<br/>United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E302.6.W7  / M35 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.3029  B