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"This book examines the ideas of the Founders with regard to establishing a national university and what those ideas say about their understanding of America. It offers the first study on the idea of a national university and how the Founders understood it as an important feature in an educational system that would sustain the American experiment in democracy. Their ideas about education suggest that shaping the American mind is essential to the success of the Constitution and that this is something that future generations would need to continue to do"--
"Constituting the American Mind is about early efforts to establish a national university and what those efforts say about the nature and logic of American Constitutionalism. This book offers the first in depth study of the efforts to establish a national university from a constitutional perspective. While mostly noted in passing, the national university was put forward by every president from Washington to John Quincy Adams as a necessary supplement to the formal institutions of government; it would help constitute the American mind in a manner that carried forward the ideas the constitution rested on including, for example, the separation of the "civic" from the "theological.""--
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Education, higher, united states, Education, higher, aims and objectives, Education and state, Constitutional history, united states, Democracy and education, Higher Education, Philosophy, Aims and objectives, Founding Fathers of the United States, Constitutional history, HISTORY / United States / 19th CenturyShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Founders and the Idea of a National University: Constituting the American Mind
2017, Cambridge University Press
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Founders and the Idea of a National University: Constituting the American Mind
2014, Cambridge University Press
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