Locke in America : the moral philosophy of the founding era / Jerome Huyler.

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [1995], ©1995.

xii, 394 pages ; 24 cm.

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Interpreting Locke's thought and assessing its influence -- Seventeenth-century background: the threat to authority -- The philosophical foundations of Locke's social thought -- The virtue of industriousness for the benefit of life -- A benignant egoism: John Locke's social ethic -- The true, original, extent, and end of civil government -- Eighteenth-century background: Locke in America -- The spirit of '76 -- The constitution of '87 -- The "triumph" of antifederalism.

Includes bibliographic references (p. [365]-380) and index