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Lim Elvin T. <1976-> |
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The lovers' quarrel : the two foundings and American political development / / Elvin T. Lim |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-932395-X |
0-19-938260-3 |
0-19-981219-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (307 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political science - United States - History |
Constitutional history - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; chapter 1. The Lovers' Quarrel: A Tale of Two Foundings; chapter 2. Federalists, Republicans, & the Revolution of 1800; chapter 3. Anti-Federalism & the Howls of Jacksonian Democracy; chapter 4. The Civil War & Publius Redux; chapter 5. Anti-Federalism & the Progressive Creative Destruction; chapter 6. The New Deal & the Nationalized Rhetoric of the Small Republic; chapter 7. Anti-Federalism & the Reagan Revolution; chapter 8. Epilogue: The Tea Party, Obama, & Beyond; Appendix I: A Defense of APD Defined as Durable Shifts in Federal Authority |
Appendix II: The Federalist LegacyAppendix III: The Anti-Federalist Legacy; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 and Perpetual Union. To decouple the Two Foundings is to appreciate that there is no 'original meaning,' only |
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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 |
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