Lance Banning's powerful and persuasive reexamination of Madison's thought at the critical early and central stages of his career now changes that presumption, and provides a new base from which thinking about Madison and the Founding must ...

Lance Banning was assembling this collection of his best and most representative writings on the Founding era when his untimely death stalled the project just short of its completion.

This revisionary study offers a convincing new interpretation of Jeffersonian Republican thought in the 1790s.

Banning provides a glimpse into the intellectual world of Jefferson and Madison, as well as insight into our own.

Conceived in Liberty probes the fundamentals of the great dispute among John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and their followers over the sort of country the United States should be.