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Marquis de Condorcet
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Noun1.Marquis de Condorcet - French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794)


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In the 18th century, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, welcomed the French Revolution and used mathematical probabilities to argue for the virtues of shared decision making.
4 DC146 By then the former Marquise de Condorcet and living in Paris, Sophie de Grouchy (1764-1822) published her translation into French of Adam Smith's 1759 The Theory of Moral Sentiments in two volumes, and appended eight Lettres sur la sympathie to the second, presenting her views as a moral theorist on the philosophical issues Smith raised.
Roderick Kiewiet, with a new take on Madison's role in the debt-assumption-for-Potomac-Capitol bargain in the First Congress); the failure of nineteenth-century British colonial administrators to learn anything from Madison's federalism (Iain McLean); Madison's role in founding the party system of the 1790s (Norman Schofield); and the supposed influence on Madison of the grandfather of modern social choice theory, the Marquis de Condorcet (the McLean and Schofield essays).
 
 
 
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