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eMarch, 1887.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
QUARTERLY.
HARRINGTON
AND HIS INFLUENCE UPON AMERICAN POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
AND POLITICAL THOUGHT.
JAMES HARRINGTON has not the reputation as a politi-
cal thinker that he deserves. This is partly due to some
fanciful notions on his part respecting forms of government,
partly to peculiarities of style, but principally to the fact that
the republican theories for which he contended were discarded
in his own country. He had no followers. He founded no
school. Still, though overlooked and unrecognized in England,
he led and inspired the views of early American statesmen. It
is not too much to say that he has left a marked impression
upon our political institutions. It is well to recall to view his
merits in this centennial year of the birth of the United States
Constitution.'
Before sketching the writings of Harrington, some general
remarks may fitly be made concerning his age and his place in
I Reference is made in this paper not only to his principal work, The Oceana,
but also to tracts written in support of it and setting forth his views upon other
political questions. These are:
The Prerogative of Popular Government.
The Art of Law-giving.
Valerius and Publicola.
Political Aphorisms.
The Ways and Means of introducing a Commonwealth by the Consent ofthe
People.
The Humble Petition of divers well-afected Persons, with the Parliament's
Answer thereto.
The edition of his works referred to in this paper is by John Toland, printed at
Dublin in 1737.
Volume 11.]
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