Conceived in Liberty: The Struggle to Define the New Republic, 1789-1793

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2004 - 97 страница
Within three years of the inauguration of the Constitution, its greatest champions found themselves irreparably divided over what that Constitution meant and how to shape the Union it had been created to perfect. Within a decade, the division at the heights of national politics had spread into a full-scale party war, the first, the most ferocious, and perhaps the most instructive in all of American history. Never since have clashing ideologies been quite so central to a party struggle and never has such a giant set of democratic statesmen argued so profoundly over concepts that are at the root of the American political tradition. Conceived in Liberty probes the fundamentals of the great dispute among John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and their followers over the sort of country the United States should be. In clear and concise prose, Lance Banning clarifies the foundations of the first great party struggle--and thus of nineteenth-century America.

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Introduction
1
Visions
7
The First Constructions of the Constitution
35
The Gentry and the People
71

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Lance Banning is professor of history at the University of Kentucky, where he has taught since 1973. He is the author of numerous books and essays on the American founding including The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology, Jefferson and Madison: Three Conversations from the Founding, and The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic.

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