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Acknowledgments

      In thinking about and writing this book, I am grateful for the assistance of my Boston College students, both the many with whom I have explored this subject in my classes, and the few who provided more extensive critiques, suggestions, and research assistance. Of the latter, I am especially grateful to Steven LeGere, Aaron Pezzullo, and, thankfully, once again, Ryan Towey. Kaylie Ramirez and Caleb Tansey from BC provided more targeted advice, as did Chris Bartlett, Richard Bensel, and Ted Holsten. My conversations with Clem Fatovic on this topic have been so numerous that it is hard for me to know where his understandings of key points and issues end and my own begin.

      Anyone who has studied this subject with Isaac Kramnick at Cornell, as Clem and I did together, will know, as casual readers might not, that Isaac’s influence on this book is pervasive. It is also hard for me to imagine having learned whatever I have about this subject without thinking of my initial conversations at Cornell with Ted Lowi, Richard Bensel, Jeremy Rabkin, and Elizabeth Sanders. I have learned an immense amount about this subject since, of course, especially from Keith Whittington, Mark Graber, and Carol Nackenoff, but from many others as well. Boston College provided generous financial assistance.

      I am immensely grateful to George Owers at Polity, both for soliciting me to write a book on this topic – which I had long been pondering – and for being such a knowledgeable, engaged, and inspiring editor. The anonymous outside reviewers George assembled first for the book proposal and then for the completed manuscript provided extraordinarily penetrating critiques, sage advice, and essential corrections that significantly improved the book. I also would like to thank Julia Davies at Polity, whose expertise and attentiveness have been indispensable to whatever successes this book may have.

      It was with great sadness that I learned of Isaac Kramnick’s death as I was completing this manuscript. But it is with a resolute happiness that I dedicate it to his memory.

Timeline

       Chapter 2 Settlement, the Road to Revolution, the Founding, and the Early Republic

      1565: First permanent European settlement established by Spain at St. Augustine, Florida

      1607: First permanent English settlement established at Jamestown, Virginia

      1619: First African laborers imported to British North America

      1620: English Puritans settle at Plymouth, Massachusetts

      1624: First Dutch Settlement at New Amsterdam (seized by the British in 1664, when its name was changed to New York)

      1630–1637: Massachusetts Bay colony established

      1675–1678: King Philip’s War

      1688–1689: Glorious Revolution (England)

      1689: Publication of John Locke’s Second Treatise on Civil Government

      1689: English Bill of Rights

      1730–1755 (circa): First Great Awakening

      1769: Spanish Catholic Franciscan missionaries establish twenty-one permanent missions along the California coast

      1775: Pennsylvania Abolition Society founded

      1775–1783: American Revolution

      1776

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