ABSTRACT
Morgan's political theory rested upon the assumption that men developed their social orders through conscious thought and rational choice. His vision of the social process appears to be one of free men, and sometimes women, assembled together for the discussion of public affairs. Resek, his biographer, comments that Morgan had no idea "that democratic political theory rested on the complex reflections of a Locke or a Jefferson" and that he "never paid much attention to the history of ideas because he was certain that since the dawn of creation men, indeed all animals, were guided by plain reason" (Resek, 1960: 18).
