The Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775-1787

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983 - 284 Seiten

Historians have emphasized the founding fathers' statesmanship and vision in the development of a more powerful union under the federal constitution. In The Origins of the Federal Republic, Peter S. Onuf clarifies the founders' achievement by demonstrating with case studies of New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Virginia that territorial confrontations among the former colonies played a crucial role in shaping early concepts of statehood and union and provided the true basis of the American federalist system.

 

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Congress and the States Conflict Resolution in the New Nation
3
From Colony to Territory Changing Concepts of Statehood
21
STATEMAKING
47
State and Citizen Settlers Against the Pennsylvania Charter
49
Virginia and the West
75
An Unbounded State New York Vermont and the Western Lands
103
The New State of Vermont Revolution Within a Revolution
127
ORIGINS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC
147
New States and the New Nation American Territorial Policy in the Critical Period
149
Constitutional Crisis
173
Making a Miracle The Reconstitution of American Politics
186
Notes
211
Index
275
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Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History, University of Virginia. He is the author of Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood and coeditor of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture.

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