The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders' Constitution, 1780s-1830s

ISBN-13: 9781107024168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 254 str.

Gerald F. Leonard; Saul Cornell

Opis

Provides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era.

Recenzje

'Leonard and Cornell have distilled and advanced understandings of what the framers intended for the US Constitution to do, and how federalists and Democratic-Republicans respectively interpreted it, even as these parties sometimes changed positions in the process. The authors also highlight how Democratic-Republicans triumphed while continuing to share some of the elitist assumptions of the original framers, and how rising democratic sentiment undermined these assumptions and thus altered constitutional understanding … This is a particularly appropriate book for history and constitutional law classes on antebellum America. Summing Up: Recommended.' J. R. Vile, Choice

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The new constitution; 2. The federalist constitution and the limits of constitutional dissent; 3. The democracy vs the law: the role of the federal judiciary, 1789–1815; 4. The paradoxes of Jeffersonian constitutionalism; 5. The white democracy; 6. The Marshall Court, the Indian nations, and the democratic ascendancy; Conclusion: the constitutional triumph and failure of the democratic party; Bibliographical essay; Index.