The invention of party politics : federalism, popular sovereignty, and constitutional development in Jacksonian Illinois / Gerald Leonard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leonard, Gerald Flood.

Series:

Studies in legal history.

Studies in legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political parties--Illinois--History--19th century.

Political parties.

Illinois--Politics and government--19th century.

Illinois.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. Taking on Richard Hofstadter's classic The Idea of a Party System, it rejects the standard view that Martin Van Buren and other Jacksonian politicians had the idea of a modern party system in mind when they built the original Democratic party.Grounded in an original retelling of Illinois politics of the 1820's and 1830's, the book also includes chapters that connect the state-level narrative to national history, from the birth of the Constitution

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Antiparty Constitutional Tradition from Bolingbroke to Van Buren; 2. The Antiparty Consensus of the Illinois Democracy; 3. State Sovereignty and the "Proscriptive Party," 1828-1830; 4. National Politics, the Constitution, and the Price of Party in Illinois, 1831-1834; 5. Partyism Unchained, 1834-1836; 6. The Spoils Aristocracy and the Paper Aristocracy, 1837-1838; 7. Ideological Origins of the Two-Party Constitution, 1839; 8. The Elections of 1839-1840: Popular Sovereignty?

9. The Rise and Fall of Constitutional Partyism: Illinois and the Nation, 1815-1854 Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-317) and index.

ISBN:

9798890875402

9780807861318

0807861316

OCLC:

476237015