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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460851703321

Autore

Cornell Saul

Titolo

The other founders : Anti-Federalism and the dissenting tradition in America, 1788-1828 / / Saul Cornell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

0-8078-3921-3

1-4696-0121-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

320.473/049

Soggetti

Constitutional history - United States

Federal government - United States - History - 18th century

Federal government - United States - History - 19th century

Dissenters - United States - History - 18th century

Dissenters - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1783-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-317) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations and a Note on the Notes; Introduction. The Other Founders; PART I. ANTI-FEDERALISM AND THE CONSTITUTION; Chapter 1. Ratification and the Politics of the Public Sphere; The Dynamics of the Public Debate; The Anti-Federalist Critique; The Rhetoric of Ratification; Reading Politics and the Politics of Reading; Chapter 2. Elite Anti-Federalist Political and Constitutional Thought; Constitutionalism; The Problem of Federalism and Localism; The Theory of the Small Republic; The Public Sphere

Chapter 3. Popular Anti-Federalist Political and Constitutional ThoughtMiddling Constitutionalism; The Political Sociology of Middling Anti-Federalism; Centinel and Philadelphiensis: Voices of Radical



Democracy; Plebeian Populism; The Carlisle Riot: The Constitutionalism of the Crowd; Plebeian Radicalism and the Public Sphere; Chapter 4. Courts, Conventions, and Constitutionalism: The Politics of the Public Sphere; The Oswald Libel Case of 1788; The Aborted Second Convention Movement; PART II. ANTI-FEDERALISM TRANSFORMED; Chapter 5. The Emergence of a Loyal Opposition

The Debate over the Meaning of RepresentationRats versus Antirats; Anti-Federalism and the Politics of the First Congress; Chapter 6. Anti-Federalist Voices within Democratic-Republicanism; Hamiltonianism and the Democratic-Republican Opposition; Strict Construction and the Original Understanding; Chapter 7. The Limits of Dissenting Constitutionalism; The Democratic-Republican Societies; The Whiskey Rebellion; Federalism versus Localist Democracy; PART III. THE ANTI-FEDERALIST LEGACY; Chapter 8. The Founding Dialogue and the Politics of Constitutional Interpretation

The Irony of the Search for an Original IntentThe Sedition Act and the Transformation of Opposition Constitutionalism; The Principles of '98; Chapter 9. Democratic-Republican Constitutionalism and the Public Sphere; Public Opinion and Dissenting Political Thought; Responses to the Alien and Sedition Crisis; The Anti-Federalist Blackstone: St. George Tucker and a Democratic-Republican Jurisprudence; Chapter 10. The Dissenting Tradition, from the Revolution of 1800 until Nullification; Clinton versus Madison; McCulloch v. Maryland and the Collapse of the Madisonian Synthesis

The Revival of Anti-Fedealism: Robert Yates's Secret ProceedingsNullification and the Splintering of the Dissenting Tradition; Van Buren and the Anti-Federalist Mind; Epilogue. Anti-Federalism and the American Political Tradition; Appendix 1. Reprinting of Anti-Federalist Documents; Appendix 2. Pamphlet, Broadside, and Periodical Republication of Anti-Federalist Documents; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z