The ideological origins of American federalism /

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Author / Creator:LaCroix, Alison L.
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Description:312 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:American Revolution (1775-1783)
Federal government -- United States -- History.
Federal government.
Politics and government.
Föderalismus.
Federalisme.
Politieke ideologie.
Föderalismus.
Federalism -- historia -- Förenta staterna.
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States.
USA.
Verenigde Staten.
USA.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7933180
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ISBN:9780674048867
0674048865
9780674062030
0674062035
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:In this book, the author traces the history of American federal thought from its colonial beginnings in scattered provincial responses to British assertions of authority, to its emergence in the late eighteenth century as a normative theory of multilayered government. The core of this new federal ideology was a belief that multiple independent levels of government could legitimately exist within a single polity, and that such an arrangement was not a defect but a virtue.
Standard no.:40017700566
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Well-Constructed Union
  • 1. The Federal Idea
  • 2. Dividing Lawmaking Power
  • 3. The Debates over Sovereignty
  • 4. Forging a Federated Union
  • 5. The Authority of a Central Government
  • 6. Jurisdiction as the Battlefield
  • Epilogue: Federalism Demystified
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index