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In the spirit of a work that traces a complex tale of political ideas, institutions, and traditions, I should acknowledge the variety of people who planted the seeds of this book, nurtured the project over several years, and sustained its author. My first teachers of political philosophy, Paul Nelson, Murray Dry, and Eve Adler, now are mentors and colleagues in liberal education. Along with several other teachers and mentors at Middlebury College and in Middlebury, they introduced me to liberal inquiry and serious study, doing for me what their teachers had done for them. At Oxford University the Rhodes Trust, Zbigniew Pelcyzsnki, and the Dominican Friars, among other influences and friends there, permitted me to broaden and deepen my conceptions of philosophy, politics, and liberal education. Robert Faulkner supervised the dissertation from which this book grew. He has proved a steadfast, encouraging, and discerning guide to issues large and small, both in my work on this book and in our work on Marshall's Life of George Washington. David Lowenthal first plowed the furrow in which several fine Montesquieu studies have taken root, and I am grateful that my work could benefit from such fertile soil. In subsequent years I have consulted his teaching more than he knows. Robert Scigliano taught me much about the American framers, Blackstone, judicial power, and constitutional law. These teachers and other faculty at Boston College, including Father Ernest Fortin, Susan Shell, Christopher Bruell, Dennis Hale, and Marc Landy, sent me into the world of thinking, teaching, and writing with a fund of moral and intellectual resources.

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