A Revolution in Favor of Government:: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American StateOUP USA, 2003. 10. 9. - 333페이지 What were the intentions of the Founders? Was the American constitution designed to protect individual rights? To limit the powers of government? To curb the excesses of democracy? Or to create a robust democratic nation-state? These questions echo through today's most heated legal and political debates. In this powerful new interpretation of America's origins, Max Edling argues that the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of war making and resource extraction from the states to the national government thereby creating a nation-state invested with all the important powers of Europe's eighteenth-century "fiscal-military states." A strong centralized government, however, challenged the American people's deeply ingrained distrust of unduly concentrated authority. To secure the Constitution's adoption the Federalists had to accommodate the formation of a powerful national government to the strong current of anti-statism in the American political tradition. They did so by designing a government that would be powerful in times of crisis, but which would make only limited demands on the citizenry and have a sharply restricted presence in society. The Constitution promised the American people the benefit of government without its costs. Taking advantage of a newly published letterpress edition of the constitutional debates, A Revolution in Favor of Government recovers a neglected strand of the Federalist argument, making a persuasive case for rethinking the formation of the federal American state. |
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... citizens in a state could become a " faction , " acting to maximize private interests with a complete disregard for long - term public needs and minority rights . To complete the Madisonian analysis , two things have to be added . First ...
... citizens in a state could become a " faction , " acting to maximize private interests with a complete disregard for long - term public needs and minority rights . To complete the Madisonian analysis , two things have to be added . First ...
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... citizens from forming majorities that could threaten justice , and enrolled the same citizens in guarding against the abuse of power by the federal government . At both state and national level , then , the crucial problem to Madison ...
... citizens from forming majorities that could threaten justice , and enrolled the same citizens in guarding against the abuse of power by the federal government . At both state and national level , then , the crucial problem to Madison ...
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... citizens . In other words , they had to explain that it was possible to create a state that was powerful yet able to respect popular aversion to government . An important step toward the solution of this dilemma was federalism , which ...
... citizens . In other words , they had to explain that it was possible to create a state that was powerful yet able to respect popular aversion to government . An important step toward the solution of this dilemma was federalism , which ...
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... citizens , thereby challenging their anti- statist perceptions ? From the perspective of political theory , this may not seem the most profound question , but it was certainly a very pressing one to the Federalists who tried to meet ...
... citizens , thereby challenging their anti- statist perceptions ? From the perspective of political theory , this may not seem the most profound question , but it was certainly a very pressing one to the Federalists who tried to meet ...
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LEGITIMACY AND MEANING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLIC DEBATE TO THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION | 15 |
THE ELUSIVE MEANING OF THE DEBATE OVER RATIFICATION | 31 |
EUROPEAN STATES AMERICAN CONTEXTS | 47 |
THE IDEOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO STATE EXPANSION | 59 |
AN IMPOTENT CONGRESS | 73 |
INDEPENDENCE COMMERCE AND MILITARY STRENGTH | 89 |
A GOVERNMENT OF FORCE | 101 |
GOVERNMENT BY CONSENT | 115 |
CONGRESSIONAL INSOLVENCY | 149 |
UNLIMITED TAXATION PUBLIC CREDIT AND THE STRENGTH OF GOVERNMENT | 163 |
THE COSTS OF GOVERNMENT | 175 |
A GOVERNMENT FOR FREE | 191 |
THE FEDERALISTS AND THE USES OF FISCAL POWERS | 206 |
THE CONSTITUTION THE FEDERALISTS AND THE AMERICAN STATE | 219 |
NOTES | 231 |
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13 페이지 - ... whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident ;o and force.
5 페이지 - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
10 페이지 - PRESIDENT, I confess, that I do not entirely approve of this Constitution at present; but, Sir, I am not sure I shall never approve it; for, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
5 페이지 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...