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Peace pact : the lost world of the American founding
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Peace pact : the lost world of the American founding / David C. Hendrickson.
ISBN
0700612378 (alk. paper)
9780700612376 (alk. paper)
Published
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2003.
Physical Description
xiv, 402 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2011
Series
American political thought.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
To Philadelphia
The great debate of 1788
The unionist paradigm
An experiment in international cooperation
The lessons of history
An age of inquiry
Greece and Rome
Universal monarchy nd the balance of power: the view from the eighteenth century
Républiques Fédérative and Machiavellian moments
The British setting: continental connections and the balanced constitution
The British Empire and the American Revolution
From war to war
Constitutional crisis
Burden-sharing and representation
Plans of union and the imperial predicament
"The great Serbonian bog"
Rights and wrongs, prophets and seers
Independence and union
Articles of confederation and perpetual union
Problematics of union
"The Dickinson plan"
Deadlock and compromise
The basis of congressional authority
A foreign policy of independence
Foundations of the new diplomacy
States, sections, and foreign policy
The armistice of 1783
Peace pace: the writing and ratification of the constitution
Vices of the critical period
To the great compromise
Commerce, slavery, and Machiavellian moment
"A feudal system of Republics"
Federals and anti-federals
Conclusion.
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