Gerald Leonard, Saul Cornell

The Partisan Republic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781107024168
• ISBN-10: 1107024161
• Artikelnr.: 54330768

Autorenporträt

Gerald Leonard is Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law and author of The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

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.