Jefferson, Madison, and the making of the Constitution / Jeff Broadwater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broadwater, Jeff, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Madison, James, 1751-1836.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.

United States. Constitution.

United States.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Political and social views.

Jefferson, Thomas.

Madison, James, 1751-1836--Political and social views.

Madison, James.

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Political and social views.

Constitution (United States).

Physical Description:

xv, 274 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies. Yet historians have often seen a tension between the idealistic rhetoric of the Declaration and the more pedestrian language of the Constitution. Moreover, to some, the adoption of the Constitution represented a repudiation of the democratic values of the Revolution. In this book, Jeff Broadwater explores the evolution of the constitutional thought of these two seminal American figures, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the adoption of the Bill of Rights"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The coarse and dry study of the law: 1743-1774

A happy talent of composition: 1774-1776

A friendship was formed: 1776-1781

All the world is becoming commercial: 1781-1785

Confusion . . . must stifle all enterprize: 1784-1786

A new government must be made: 1786-1787

Opposition enough to do good: 1787-1788

Let us secure what we can: 1788-1789.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469651019

1469651017

OCLC:

1052442887