As of July, 2010, I am concentrating my efforts on developing papers covering social, political and economic issues, using the lens of small-r republicanism to investigate various topics that fall under these headings. You can access the papers at The Small “r” home page on Scribd.
All users, please be aware that I retain all rights to my works, and make every attempt to lock my .pdf documents from all usage save for reading and downloading. I undertake this for two reasons: 1) These papers have taken a copious amount of reading and research on my part and while I certainly welcome proper citation, I do not appreciate my work being plagiarized; and 2) regarding plagiarism, awhile ago I was requested by some universities to lock up my documents, as they discovered instances of plagiarism from my papers by utilizing sophisticated search software to compare papers submitted for grades against text available on the Internet. I was more than happy to comply: Students, earn your own grades.
NOTE: My work is not connected with the small-r group on Facebook, which is a citizen reformation effort within the Republican party. The endeavors of The Small “r” largely use the works of small-r republicanism from political philosophers who influenced, or from the Founders who were directly involved in, the establishment of the American Republic in the late 18th- and early 19th-century. Some 20th-century authors are relied on where more contemporary issues are involved, issues that the Founders could not have anticipated.
Regardless, the use of republicanism (the political framework, not the contemporary political party) at The Small “r” is decidedly Jeffersonian, which cuts across all contemporary political parties and platforms. My only request is that the reader gives it a fair hearing.
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