Abstract
An examination of Orestes Brownson's understanding of Providence suggests that, for Brownson, not only the American Founders, but also the "pagan" political philosophers—that is, the original founders of the idea of natural right—"built better than they knew." Tocqueville, in comparison, trusted less in Providence than Brownson and offers himself as a kind of mediator between reason and history, the universal and the particular.
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