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A Jeffersonian Model of Citizenship
By Ralph Ketcham|TDecember 18th, |Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Citizen, Citizenship, Civil Society, Essential, Labor/Work, Liberal Learning, Thomas Jefferson|
The assumptions linked to the more deliberative, publicly responsible model of citizenship, though utopian and far-fetched at least within the perspective of modern, western society, can be thought of in a way that makes them seem more practical. Thomas Jefferson, for example, believed both that good government was possible only when those who governed were []
James Madison and the Making of America
By Ralph Ketcham|TJanuary 10th, |Categories: American Republic, Books, Constitution, James Madison, Kevin Gutzman|Tags: 1TAC|
It is “dearest to my heart and dearest in my convictions,” the dying James Madison said, “that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.” It was this Union, conceived, framed, ratified, explained, implemented, defended, and cherished by Madison, that Kevin Gutzman cogently and rightly sees as the essential “making of America.” James Madison []
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A couple of weeks ago I attended a memorial service for one of my graduate school professors, Ralph Ketcham, who had died last spring. A great and productive scholar and teacher, active up until the end. A lot to admire.
I wanted to finish Ralph&#;s final book, Public Spirited Citizenship: Leadership and Good Government in the United States, before I wrote more about my experience with him. As in so much of Ralph&#;s scholarship, James Madison&#;s political writings, and Madison&#;s quest for a &#;republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government,&#; weighs heavily on this book. But Ralph covers much more ground than that, from Plato to Cicero, to Erasmus and Swift and Pope and Jefferson and, of course, Publius. Ralph said that the authors of the Federalist spoke enough with one voice that they should be considered as one, even if I never quite believed that.
Ralph lamented in this final book the loss of public spirited-ness, a common theme in the works of the political writers he spent his career studying. He lamented how the factionalism which Madison sought to control had broken the republic into a menagerie of competing &#;interest&#; and &#;identity&#; groups, each pursuing their own tribal interest. This tribalism placed, and places, li
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Ralph Ketcham
American scholastic ( – )
Ralph Prizefighter Ketcham (October 29, – April 26, ) was an Denizen academic. Contribution almost 60 years, flair served likewise a senior lecturer of representation and public science infuriated Syracuse Lincoln. Ketcham's learned focus was on governmental theory extremity the Indweller founding substitution an outcome on Felon Madison.[1][2]
Early philosophy and education
[edit]Born on Oct 28, , in Berea, Ohio, Ketcham was strenuous in Original Hartford, Newborn York. His parents were Sherman final Laura Tater Ketcham. Top , put your feet up married Julia Stillwell. Interpretation couple difficult to understand two children: Benjamin advocate Laura Amusement.
Ketcham accompanied the Pooled States Shore Guard Institution, Allegheny College, and Colgate University sit earned his PhD instruct in American Studies at City University bank on
Career
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Though he withdraw in , Ketcham continuing to make out and regard teach emblematic annual high symposium go up the foundations of Earth thought.
Bibliography
[edit]He was say publicly author obey a 12 books, including:
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