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“A Master Work by a Master Student: Ellis Sandoz's A Government of Laws” - Ellis Sandoz. A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion, and the American Founding (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xiv + 240pp. Bib. $8.95 paper).

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Ellis Sandoz. A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion, and the American Founding (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xiv + 240pp. Bib. $8.95 paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1993

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1. Sandoz, Ellis, “Voegelin's Idea of Historical Form,Cross Currents 12 (1962): 4163Google Scholar; Eric Voegelin and the Nature of Philosophy,Modern Age 13 (1969): 152–68Google Scholar; The Foundations of Voegelin's Political Theory,Political Science Reviewer 1 (1971): 3073Google Scholar; Voegelin Read Anew: Political Philosophy in the Age of Ideology,Modern Age 17 (1973): 257–63Google Scholar; and The Voegelinian Revolution: A Biographical Introduction (Baton Rouge, 1981).Google Scholar

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3. James, William, A Pluralistic Universe, in Perry, Ralph Barton, ed., Essays in Radical Empiricism: A Pluralistic Universe (Gloucester, 1967), 263. Quoted in the work under review, p. 83.Google Scholar

4. Cf. Sandoz, Ellis, ed., Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730–1805 (Indianapolis, 1991).Google Scholar

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6. Cf. esp. Voegelin, Eric, The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (Chicago, 1952)Google Scholar; idem, Science, Politics, and Gnosticism (Chicago, 1968).Google Scholar

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9. Cf. Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, 1967).Google Scholar

10. Popper, Karl R., The Poverty of Historicism (New York, 1964), 66.Google Scholar