...(No. 36) IT 1s EVIDENT that no other form [of government but a republican one] would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America, with the...fundamental principles of the revolution, or with that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments...

...idea of democracy led him to take seriously what James Madison in The Federalist (no. 39) speaks of as 'that honourable determination, which animates every...experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government. ' For Lonergan the possibility of human self-government is identical with the potentiality for being...

...concerned the fate of liberty or selfgovernment. In the Federalist Papers, James Madison spoke proudly of "that honourable determination which animates every...experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government" (no. 39, 240). The cause was noble because it promised to bring honor to human nature, but the nature...

...[under the Constitution] be strictly republican? It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the revolution; or with the honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments...

...Revolution, the genius of the American people demanded republican government, there being now "an honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom,...political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government."12 But republican institutions, if not republicanism, were not unprecedented in common...

...Constitution "be strictly republican." "It is evident," he writes, "that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the...fundamental principles of the revolution; or with that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments...

...was being proposed. To begin with, in its general form and aspect the new government would have to be strictly republican. "It is evident that no other...fundamental principles of the revolution; or with that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments...

...is, that its day-to-day operations would reflect the will of the people. "It is evident," he wrote, "that no other form would be reconcileable with the...fundamental principles of the revolution; or with that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments...

...of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom,...rest all our political experiments on the capacity for self-government." If the plan proposed, he adds, be not republican, it is indefensible. This is...

...of the American experiment: "that honorable determination," as Madison put it in Federalist No. 39, "to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." Science and technology may pose an even greater challenge to this determination than did slavery or...