Liberty, Responsibility, and the Forgotten Founding Fathers
ABSTRACT
Conferees considered the contributions and legacies of three “forgotten” Founding Fathers: Charles Carroll of Carrollton, John Dickinson, and James Wilson.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Empire and Nation: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (John Dickinson), Letters from the Federal Farmer (Richard Henry Lee). Edited by Forrest McDonald. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1999.
Onuf, Peter S., eds. Maryland and the Empire, 1773. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.
Birzer, Bradley J. American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll. Wilmington: ISI Books, 2010.
Carroll, Charles. “Remarks on the Proposed Constitution.” Maryland Historical Magazine (Summer 1976): 229-251.
Wilson, James. Collected Works of James Wilson, Volume II. Edited by Kermit L. Hall and Mark David Hall. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2007.
Wilson, James. Collected Works of James Wilson, Volume I. Edited by Kermit L. Hall and Mark David Hall. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2007. http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2072 (accessed May 12, 2011).