Article ID: CBB001021427

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Probability and Constitutions (2009)

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McLean, Iain (Author)


Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Volume: 5, no. 2
Issue: 2


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: http://www.jehps.net/Decembre2009/McLean.pdf (Accessed on December 1, 2010)
Language: English

Economics, statistics, and probability were developed independently by thinkers of the Scottish and French Enlightenments. The two traditions were brought together by the close friends Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Both were educated by professors steeped in Scottish thought; both wrote fundamental American constitutional documents. Jefferson served as American Minister in Paris from 1784 to 1789, where his thought developed through his active contacts with French mathematicians and liberal politicians. Behind the scenes, he helped to draft the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Based on Jefferson's and Madison's letters, the paper explicates their thinking about probability, constitutionalism, and rights at this period: its Scottish roots, and its consequences for the US and French constitutions.

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Description Regarding the American integration of Scottish and French economics, statistics, and probability.


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Authors & Contributors
Martin, Thierry
Abrams, Jeanne E.
Behar, Cem
Carson, John S.
Coclanis, Peter A.
Didier, Emmanuel
Journals
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Science in Context
American Historical Review
Business History Review
History of European Ideas
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Publishers
Harvard University
Institut National d'Études Démographiques
Johns Hopkins University Press
Knopf
New York University Press
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Political science
Economics
Science and politics
Probability and statistics
Social sciences
Biographies
People
Madison, James
Jefferson, Thomas
Adams, John
Washington, George
Bartram, John
Bernoulli, Daniel
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century
Enlightenment
17th century
Modern
Places
United States
Berlin (Germany)
France
North America
Institutions
American Association for the Advancement of Science
College of William and Mary
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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