Abstract
OR a long time, of the principal paradigms used to interpret the F politics of the founding fathers of the United States was political Newtonianism. This body of thought, developed in the eighteenth century, put ideas and metaphors of Enlightened science to use in constructing political mechanisms and rationalizing political order. In recent years, this interpretation has been neglected in favor of a variety of emphases drawn from other discrete traditions of political ideology.1 But the conflicts and irresolutions of these competing paradigms open the way for a fresh consideration of Newtonian concepts that were formative and fundamental in the political consciousness of the men who created the state and federal systems of the new republic. Several years ago, Isaac Kramnick dissented from interpretations of America's founding period that emphasize a search for one exclusive or even hegemonic paradigm of political culture. After considering four paradigms-
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