
Schools for Statesmen
“Whatever Principles are imbibed at College will run thro’ a Man’s whole future Conduct.”—William Livingston, signer of the Constitution
Schools for Statesmen explores the fifty-five individual Framers of the Constitution in close detail and argues that their different educations help explain their divergent positions at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Those educations ranged from outlawed Iris...
“Whatever Principles are imbibed at College will run thro’ a Man’s whole future Conduct.”—William Livingston, signer of the Constitution
Schools for Statesmen explores the fifty-five individual Framers of the Constitution in close detail and argues that their different educations help explain their divergent positions at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Those educations ranged from outlawed Iris...