In the Cause of Humanity

In the Cause of Humanity: Creating Juried Democracies to New-Model the American Revolution, Howard DeLong *60 offers a new understanding of what the American Revolution was in the 18th century. The book analyzes political and economic ideas that include courts of common reason, complex markets, and juried democracies. It also outlines a practical program to attain the transcendent goal of the American Revolution: a perpetually improving union of material and moral prosperity. DeLong retired in 1999 from teaching philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.