Orestes Brownson: THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC (1865)

To his contemporary, John Henry Newman, Orestes Brownson was ""by far the greatest thinker that America has ever produced."

In his great classic, THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, Brownson states that the American republic's "idea is liberty with law, and law with liberty. Yet its mission is not so much the realization of liberty as the realization of the true idea of the state, which secures at once the authority of the public and the freedom of the individual - the sovereignty of the people without social despotism, and individual freedom without anarchy."

Brownson's classic has been compared Tocqueville's DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA. Brownson has experienced a revival of his reputation, and has been admired by such diverse intellectuals as Russell Kirk and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Our edition is a new typesetting produced in 2003, along with an Introduction by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

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