Concept
Massachusetts
Overview
state of the United States of America
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At the head of this minority is what is called the Essex Junto of Massachusetts. But the majority of these leaders do not aim at separation. In this they adhere to the known principle of General Hamilton, never, under any views, to break the Union.
Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
States what Massachusetts is; names Massachusetts several times.
Nebraska printing begins in fact with the 16th number of the _Nebraska Palladium_, issued at Bellevue on November 15, 1854. Previously issued at St. Mary's, Iowa, the paper takes pride in introducing printing to the newly formed Territory of Nebraska and identifies the men responsible: The first printers in our office, and who have set up the present number, are natives of three different states--Ohio, Virginia, and…
Roger J. Trienens, Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States
Names Massachusetts twice; opens on Massachusetts.
In whatever tended to strengthen the republican features of our constitution, we could not fail to expect from Massachusetts, the cradle of our revolutionary principles, an ultimate concurrence; and cultivating the peace of nations, with justice and prudence, we yet were always confident that, whenever our rights would be to be vindicated against the aggression of foreign foes, or the machinations of internal…
Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 8
Names Massachusetts several times; opens on Massachusetts.
Philosophers who discussed Massachusetts
- Roger Scruton
- Aristophanes
- Nelson Goodman
- John McDowell
- Ralph Cudworth
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Hilary Putnam
- Lysander Spooner
- Daniel Dennett
- Amos Bronson Alcott
- Borden Parker Bowne
- Detective fiction
- John Fiske (philosopher)
- Steven T. Katz
- Mary Daly
- Thomas Tymoczko
- Hasok Chang
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Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Roger Scruton.