American Enterprise Institute

The American Revolution and the Constitution

Was the American Revolution a Change of Regime? Notes

  1. Aristotle, Politics 1.2.1253a2–18, 29–39.
  2. Aristotle, Politics 3.6.1279a25–9.1280b34.
  3. Aristotle, Politics 1.2.1252a24–30.
  4. Aristotle, Politics 5.1.1301a28–3.1303b10.
  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Concord Hymn,” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45870/concord-hymn.
  6. Federalist, no. 1 (Alexander Hamilton), https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-1-10.
  7. John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings, ed. Mark Goldie (1689; Liberty Fund, 2010), 18.
  8. Federalist, no. 1 (Hamilton).
  9. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Talcott Parsons (George Allen & Unwin, 1930); and D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature (Thomas Seltzer, 1923).
  10. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Heritage Press, 1951), 102, 106.
  11. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 108.
  12. Federalist, no. 51 (James Madison), https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-51-60.
  13. Federalist, no. 72 (Alexander Hamilton), https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-71-80.
  14. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. and trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (University of Chicago Press, 2000), 235–49.
  15. Federalist, no. 72 (Hamilton).
  16. Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 7.
  17. Aristotle, Politics 3.16.1287a–b.
  18. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 5.6.1134b–7.1135a.
  19. Abraham Lincoln, “Speech on the Dred Scott Decision” (speech, Springfield, IL, June 26, 1857), https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/speech-on-the-dred-scott-decision-3/; and Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963, https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html.
  20. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 2nd ed., trans. Harvey C. Mansfield (University of Chicago Press, 1998), 61.