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Article: The quintessential founder.(John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic)(Book review)
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- Modern Age
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- March 22, 2006
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John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic, by Jeffry H. Morrison, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 220 pp.
WHO NOW REMEMBERS John Witherspoon? Despite his many achievements--a celebrated pastor, president of Princeton, tutor to James Madison and other founders, and the sole cleric to sign the Declaration of Independence--Witherspoon has all but fallen through the memory hole of American history. And yet during his lifetime he was a giant figure in at least three areas in colonial and newly-independent America: politics, religion, and education. His career has much to teach us about what we think we know about the founding ...