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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornell, Saul, author.

Contributor:

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Series:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Federal government--United States--History--18th century.

Federal government.

Federal government--United States--History--19th century.

Dissenters--United States--History--18th century.

Dissenters.

Dissenters--United States--History--19th century.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fear of centralized authority is deeply rooted in American history. The struggle over the U.S. Constitution in 1788 pitted the Federalists, supporters of a stronger central government, against the Anti-Federalists, the champions of a more localist vision of politics. But, argues Saul Cornell, while the Federalists may have won the battle over ratification, it is the ideas of the Anti-Federalists that continue to define the soul of American politics.While no Anti-Federalist party emerged after ratification, Anti-Federalism continued to help define the limits of legitimate dissent within the American constitutional tradition for decades. Anti-Federalist ideas also exerted an important influence on Jeffersonianism and Jacksonianism. Exploring the full range of Anti-Federalist thought, Cornell illustrates its continuing relevance in the politics of the early Republic.A new look at the Anti-Federalists is particularly timely given the recent revival of interest in this once neglected group, notes Cornell. Now widely reprinted, Anti-Federalist writings are increasingly quoted by legal scholars and cited in Supreme Court decisions—clear proof that their authors are now counted among the ranks of America's founders.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908708-8-9

979-88-908708-9-6

0-8078-3921-3

1-4696-0121-4

OCLC:

966821463