The Lovers' Quarrel : the Two Foundings and American Political Development.

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The United States has experienced Two Foundings, not one. The framers of the second Constitution, the Federalists, were not operating in an ideational or institutional vacuum; rather, the document they drafted and ratified was designed to remedy the perceived flaws of the Articles of Confederation a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lim, Elvin T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Political science > United States > History.
Constitutional history > United States.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Politics and government.
Constitutional history.
Political science.
United States > Politics and government.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The United States has experienced Two Foundings, not one. The framers of the second Constitution, the Federalists, were not operating in an ideational or institutional vacuum; rather, the document they drafted and ratified was designed to remedy the perceived flaws of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. To decouple the Two Foundings is to appreciate that there is no 'original meaning, ' only original dissent. Because, on the insistence of the Anti-Federalists, prior and democratically sanctioned understandings of federalism and union had to be negotiated and partially grafted ont.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (307 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199812196
0199812195

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