The American Founders are neither heroes nor villains but something more radical: our inheritance.
Thomas W. Merrill
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Thomas W. Merrill.
Apr 16, 2018
His institutional innovations were geared toward preserving slavery.
Thomas Merrill is Associate Professor of Government at American University and a Jack Miller Center faculty partner. He is also co-editor of American Political Thought, a Jack Miller Center-supported journal, and the only currently-published academic outlet dedicated exclusively to the study of the American political tradition.