18th Century American Republicanism Essay

During the eighteenth-century, Foner mentioned that the Great Britain had

become the freest country and its economy system had rapidly grown at that time,

despite the slavery that was happening in there (page 140). Great Britain was then

acknowledged as the biggest political, economical, constitutional and social influence

to the world. In fact, America also became one of the nations that happened to be

greatly influenced in its political system at that time. There were two major political

ideas that being proliferated, which were republicanism and liberalism.

The term ‘republicanism’ refers to a leaderless constitution in British at that

time. Learning upon the term, I interpret that republicanism was all about the society;