Beyond confederation : origins of the constitution and American national identity / edited by Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. Carter II.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beeman, Richard R., editor.

Botein, Stephen, editor.

Carter, Edward C., II, 1928-2002, editor.

Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

Series:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1789.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; London, [England] : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Summary:

The focus of 'Beyond Confederation' is the Constitution of the United States in its own era. The authors scrutinize the ideological background of the Constitution, the rigors of its writing and ratification, and the problems it both faced and provoked immediately after ratification. The essays question much of the heritage of eighteenth-century constitutional thought and suggest that many of the commonly debated issues have led us away from the truly germane questions.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: IDEOLOGIES; The American Constitution: A Revolutionary Interpretation; The Constitution of the Thinking Revolutionary; Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution; PART II: ISSUES; Shays's Rebellion and the Ratification of the Federal Constitution in Massachusetts; Money, Credit, and Federalist Political Economy; The Practicable Sphere of a Republic: James Madison, the Constitutional Convention, and the Emergence of Revolutionary Federalism; Slavery and the Constitutional Convention: Making a Covenant with Death

James Madison and Visions of American Nationality in the Confederation Period: A Regional PerspectivePART III: AFTERMATH; The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George Washington; The Persistence of Antifederalism after 1789; Religious Dimensions of the Early American State; EPILOGUE; A Roof without Walls: The Dilemma of American National Identity; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908822-7-1

979-88-908822-8-8

0-8078-3932-9

1-4696-0124-9

OCLC:

966841621