HIST 1376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Richard Hofstadter, Intellectual, Hard Power
25 Sep 2017
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When and why did he write the essays in the. He approaches history from the far left, rejected it, and then worked in consensus history. I think he was quali ed, since he worked in the humanities eld. Preservation of property, philosophy of economic individualism, value of competition. [know this; it will appear on every exam. ] Liberty would be de ned as property & democracy would be de ned as system of govt expressed by the majority. They feared democracy, as men were thought of as sel sh. Balanced government meant that there"s a shared balance of power, and branches do not have explicit control over the other. The founding fathers were not realists; realism consists of using hard power to gain what you want. What, according to hofstadter, was the difference between the federalists and the. The federalist party was born in the 1790s and became associated with president george.
