The invention of party politics : federalism, popular sovereignty, and constitutional development in Jacksonian Illinois /

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This work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. It rejects the view that Martin Van Buren and other Jacksonian politicians had the idea of a modern party system in mind when they built the original democratic system.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leonard, Gerald Flood (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
Colección:Studies in legal history.
Temas:
1800-1899
Political parties > Illinois > History > 19th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Parties.
Political parties
Politics and government
Illinois > Politics and government > 19th century.
Illinois
Samfundsvidenskab > Politologi.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The antiparty constitutional tradition from Bolingbroke to Van Buren
  • The antiparty consensus of the Illinois democracy
  • State sovereignty and the "Proscriptive party," 1828-1830
  • National politics, the Constitution, and the price of party in Illinois, 1831-1834
  • Partyism unchained, 1834-1836
  • The spoils aristocracy and the paper aristocracy, 1837-1838
  • Ideological origins of the two-party constitution, 1839
  • The elections of 1839-1840 : popular sovereignty?
  • The rise and fall of constitutional partyism : Illinois and the nation, 1815-1854.

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