Tag: early U.S. political philosophy

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  February 24, 2026

  Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment Republicanism against Illuminati Panic: Letter on Weishaupt’s Perfectibilist Ideal

  An analysis and historical context surrounding Thomas Jefferson’s private correspondence to Bishop James Madison (president of the College of William & Mary and cousin of future President James Madison) in defense of Adam Weishaupt’s ideals written from Philadelphia on 31 January 1800 against Abbé Barruel’s Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism. Occurring during the height…