| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Canada and the United States

Jeffry H. Morrison. John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 220. $22.50.

The first chapter of this volume is titled "Forgotten Founder" and that captures much of the character of Jeffry H. Morrison's book. John Witherspoon was, of course, the president of the College of New Jersey, soon to become Princeton, during the founding period. Apparently fund raising was not as much a full-time job for college presidents in that day, so Witherspoon found time to be an active clergyman, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, a signer of the Articles of Confederation, and delegate to the New Jersey ratifying constitution. He was also a pamphleteer in the patriot cause, a sermonizer (of course), and the author of a series of lectures on moral theory that became perhaps the leading text book produced on that subject in those years in the colonies. Morrison is struck by the injustice of a man of such accomplishment not being better remembered. He makes a good start toward bringing Witherspoon more to mind.

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