The impact on America: Scottish philosophy and the American founding

The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 316-337

  Fleischacker, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521802733.017     Document Type: Chapter

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