McLean, Iain (Author)
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Volume: 5, no. 2
Issue: 2
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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