Donald Lutz, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Donald Lutz

Donald S. Lutz is professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. He has published over forty articles and book chapters, including articles in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. His books include A Preface to American Political Theory, The Origins of American Constitutionalism, Colonial Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History, and Principles of Consitutional Design.

Foundations of the American Republic

By Donald Lutz|2021-07-02T08:25:49-05:00July 2nd, 2021|Categories: American Founding, Donald Lutz, Essential, Timeless Essays|

Bernard Bailyn and Gordon Wood have together recaptured for us the importance of Whig political theory for our view of ourselves as a people, the initiation of the Revolution, the creation of our enduring political institutions, and the writing of our national Constitution. In doing so they have forced us to seek the origins of [...]

Foundations of the American Republic: Whig Political Theory?

By Donald Lutz|2019-05-25T14:34:46-05:00July 16th, 2013|Categories: American Founding, Books, Donald Lutz, Federalist Papers|Tags: 1PSR|

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, by Gordon S. Wood Bernard Bailyn and Gordon S. Wood are already regarded by professional historians as among the best of their respective generations.[1] Bailyn is credited with having significantly shifted our view of the American Revolution’s origins, and Wood [...]