A revolution in favor of government : origins of the U.S. Constitution and the making of the American state / Max M. Edling.
2003
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Author
Title
A revolution in favor of government : origins of the U.S. Constitution and the making of the American state / Max M. Edling.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Call Number
KF4541 .E28 2003
ISBN
0195148703 (cloth)
Description
xii, 333 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50809975
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-314) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Beyond Madisonian Federalism
3
Pt. 1
Interpreting the Debate over Ratification
1
Legitimacy and Meaning: The Significance of Public Debate to the Adoption of the Constitution
15
2
The Elusive Meaning of the Debate over Ratification
31
3
European States, American Contexts
47
4
The Ideological Response to State Expansion
59
Pt. 2
Military Powers
5
An Impotent Congress
73
6
Independence, Commerce, and Military Strength
89
7
A Government of Force
101
8
Government by Consent
115
9
The Federalists and the Uses of Military Powers
129
Pt. 3
Fiscal Powers
10
Congressional Insolvency
149
11
Unlimited Taxation, Public Credit, and the Strength of Government
163
12
The Costs of Government
175
13
A Government for Free
191
14
The Federalists and the Uses of Fiscal Powers
206
Conclusion: The Constitution, the Federalists, and the American State
219
Notes
231
Index
315