James A. Cornelius

James A. Cornelius is from Southern Utah, and lives with his wife in Pullman, WA. In 2020, he received his BA degree in history from Brigham Young University-Idaho. Currently, he is a graduate student of history at Washington State University. Cornelius is interested in the political ideologies of the Founding generation, largely within revolutionary Virginia. This includes an avid interest in the transatlantic intellectual origins of their thought and discourse, especially the classical, medieval and early modern sources that influenced them.

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Constitutional Debate, Critical Thinking, People, Postwar Politics (>1783) January 27, 2021 January 25, 2021

Partly National, Partly Federal: James Madison, the Amphictyonic Confederacy, and the Republican Balance

Following the Constitutional Convention’s completion of the United States Constitution in the Fall of 1787, many of those involved in its creation embarked on…

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People, Postwar Politics (>1783) July 14, 2020 July 14, 2020

An American Bolingbroke: John Taylor of Caroline’s Republican Opposition, 1792–1794, Part 2 of 2

Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, in the first half of the eighteenth century, and John Taylor of Caroline in the 1790s, both feared that…

Constitutional Debate, People, Postwar Politics (>1783) July 13, 2020 July 12, 2020

An American Bolingbroke: John Taylor of Caroline’s Republican Opposition, 1792–1794, Part 1 of 2

From 1792 to 1794, John Taylor of Caroline, a senator from Virginia, was engaged in a heated party struggle between Jeffersonian Republicans and Hamiltonian…