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The Politics of Size : Representation in the United States, 1776-1850 /

After the Revolution, Americans faced the challenge of expanding representative government throughout an extensive territory. The complex process of adapting republicanism to a vast area generated many conflicts over representation in both states and the nation-conflicts that produced a division bet...

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Autor principal: Zagarri, Rosemarie, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Dimensions of the Problem
  • 1. The Centrality of State Capitals
  • 2. Apportionment Divides the States
  • 3. The Large State-Small State Controversy Revisited
  • 4. Representation and the Extensive Republic
  • 5. Creating Congressional Constituencies
  • 6. The Persistence of the Large State-Small State Conflict
  • Epilogue: Beyond Boundlessness
  • Appendix Tables
  • Index