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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961176303321

Autore

Kromkowski Charles A (Charles Aloysius), <1963->

Titolo

Recreating the American republic : rules of apportionment, constitutional change, and American political development, 1700-1870 / / Charles A. Kromkowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-13165-0

1-280-43372-8

0-511-32593-2

1-139-14749-8

0-511-17824-7

0-511-06394-6

0-511-05761-X

0-511-50985-5

0-511-07240-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxii, 451 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

320.973/09/033

Soggetti

Constitutional history - United States

United States Politics and government To 1775

United States Politics and government 1775-1783

United States Politics and government 1783-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The paradox of constitutional consent -- Constitutional change I: 1700-1781 -- Constitutional change II: 1781-1789 -- Constitutional change III: 1790-1870.

Sommario/riassunto

Rules of apportionment are elements of social and political order. In social gatherings, families and governments they assume a variety of written and unwritten forms and in every order they determine not only how collective decisions are made but also how and why a particular constitutional order develops over time. Recreating the American Republic provides a far-reaching analysis of when, how and why these rules change and with what consequences. Recreating the American



Republic reveals the import of these rules of apportionment by engaging the three most widely recognized and studied eras and events of American political history: the Colonial era and the American Revolution; the early national years and the 1787 Constitutional Convention; and the nineteenth century and the American Civil War. Recreating the American Republic systematically compares each seemingly familiar era and event - revealing new insights and a new metanarrative of American political development between 1700 and 1870.