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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811719003321

Autore

Lim Elvin T. <1976->

Titolo

The lovers' quarrel : the two foundings and American political development / / Elvin T. Lim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-932395-X

0-19-938260-3

0-19-981219-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Classificazione

POL010000HIS054000

Disciplina

320.973

Soggetti

Political science - United States - History

Constitutional history - United States

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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