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The other founders : Anti-Federalism and the dissenting tradition in America, 1788-1828 / by Saul Cornell.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 310 .C67 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornell, Saul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.
- United States.
- 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.
- Politics and government.
- Federal government--United States--History.
- Dissenters--United States--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 327 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1999.
- 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."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Ratification and the politics of the public sphere
- The dynamics of the pubic debate
- The anti-Federalist critique
- The rhetoric of ratification
- Reading politics and the politics of reading
- Elite Anti-Federalist political and constitutional thought
- Constitutionalism
- The problem of Federalism and Localism
- The theory of the small republic
- The Public sphere
- Popular Anti-Federalist political and constitutional thought
- Middling 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
- Courts, conventions, and constitutionalism: the politics of the public sphere
- The politics of the public sphere
- The Oswald libel case of 1788
- The aborted Second Convention Movement
- The emergence of a loyal opposition
- The debate over the meaning of representation
- Rats versus Antirats
- Anti-Federalism and the politics of the First Congress
- Anti-Federalist voices within Democratic-Republicanism
- Hamiltonianism and the Democratic-Republican opposition
- Strict construction and the original understanding
- The limits of dissenting constitutionalism
- The Demoratic-Republican societies
- The Whiskey Rebellion
- Federalism versus Localist Democracy
- The founding dialogue and the politics of constitutional interpretation
- The irony of the search for an original intent
- The Sedition Act and the transformation of opposition Constitutionalism
- The Principles of '98
- Democratic-Republican constitutionalism and the public sphere
- Public opinion and dissenting political thought
- Responses to the Alien and Sedition crisis
- The anti-Federalist Blackston: St. George Tucker and a Democratic-Republican jurisprudence
- 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-Federalism: Robert Yates's secret proceedings
- Nullification and 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cornell, Saul. Other founders.
- ISBN:
- 0807825034
- 9780807825037
- 0807847860
- 9780807847862
- OCLC:
- 40762597
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
- Book review (H-Net)
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