Colleen A. Sheehan, in The William and Mary And Virtue Quarterly (Oct. 1992), Box 8781, Williamsburg, Va. 23187-

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Scholars in recent years have been vigorously debating the intellectual origins of the Found- ing Fathers' ideas. Did they derive mainly from the liberal philosophy of John Locke, the classi- cal republicanism of Plato and his heirs, the modern republicanism of Machiavelli, or other intellectual sources? The conventional view of James Madison (1751-1836), the "father" o...