To make a nation : the rediscovery of American federalism / Samuel H. Beer.
1993
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Title
To make a nation : the rediscovery of American federalism / Samuel H. Beer.
Published
Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.
Call Number
JK325 .B38 1993
ISBN
0674602129 (alk. paper) :
Description
xxi, 474 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25631558
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-457) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The National Idea in American Politics
1
The Promise of Nationhood
4
The Trial of Sectionalism
8
The Impact of Industrialism
15
The Challenge of Racism
18
Federalism and Political Theory
20
Pt. 1
From Hierarchy to Republicanism
27
1The Rule of the Wise and the Holy: Thomas Aquinas
31
The Ontology of Inequality
32
Value, Utility, and Authority
35
Hierarchies of Virtue and Grace
39
Federalism from the Top Down
45
The Enchanted World
50
Deference to the Divine Likeness
53
Old Tory Politics
56
2The Idea of the National Republic: John Milton
66
The Masterless Man
68
Government by Discussion
74
Elite and People
77
Nation and Purpose
81
3A Constitution for the National Republic: James Harrington
84
The Dilemma of Scale: Machiavelli
86
Constitutionalism and the Public Interest
92
Representation from the Bottom Up
101
The Machinery of Rational Deliberation
108
Federalism for Utility or for Liberty?
119
A Commonwealth for Increase
128
Pt. 2
The National and Republican Revolution
133
4The Conflict of Ideas
139
Edmund Burke and the Old Whig Constitution
140
Blackstone and Sovereignty
146
Benjamin Franklin and National Purpose
153
5The Decade of Agitation
163
Actual vs. Virtual Representation
164
The Parliamentary Option
168
The Federal Option
177
Imperial Federalism
185
Liberty vs. Union
190
6The Discovery of the Nation
195
How the Congress Was Chosen
196
How the Congress Governed
199
How the States Were Created
200
Tom Paine's National and Federal Republic
206
Pt. 3
The National and Republican Constitution
215
7Montesquieu's Confederate Republic
219
The Structure
220
The Mechanics
224
The Confederate Republic in America
231
The Anti-Federalist Case
237
8Madison's Compound Republic
244
Critique of Compact Federalism
245
The New Legitimacy
249
Critique of the Small Republic Theory
255
Justice and the Public Interest
261
Government by Discussion: Hume
264
Government by Discussion: Madison
270
Toward Power and Justice
275
9Auxiliary Precautions
279
Representation
280
Separation of Powers
283
Why Have States?
289
The People as Common Superior
295
The Control of Faction
301
10Sovereignty and Ratification
308
How the Constitution Was Ordained
309
Madison's Gap
313
The National Solution
317
Joseph Story's Classic Exposition
325
Critique of Article VII
330
Sovereignty, the Constitution, and Democracy
336
11James Wilson's Social Union
341
Purpose, Medieval and Modern
343
The Four Great Objects
349
The Fragility of Reason
357
Participation and Public Affection
360
The Social Passion
365
Public Affection and Federalism
372
Conclusion: Liberty and Union
379
Strong Democracy
380
Constitutionalism for Self-Government
383
Federalism and Liberty
386
Radicalism and Prudence
389
Notes
395
References
443
Index
459