Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National IdentityRichard R. Beeman, Stephen Botein, Edward Carlos Carter, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) UNC Press Books, 1987 - 366 páginas Beyond Confederation scrutinizes the ideological background of the U.S. Constitution, the rigors of its writing and ratification, and the problems it both faced and provoked immediately after ratification. The essays in this collection question muc |
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A Revolutionary Interpretation | 25 |
The Constitution of the Thinking Revolutionary | 40 |
Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution | 71 |
Ratification of the Federal Constitution in Massachusctts | 115 |
Money Credit and Federalist Political Economy | 130 |
James Madison the Constitutional Conventionand the Emergence of Revolutionary federalism | 164 |
Constitutional Convention Making a Covenant with Death | 190 |
A Regional Perspective | 228 |
The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George Washington | 263 |
The Persistence ofAntifedemlism afier 1789 | 297 |
Religious Dimensions of the Early American State | 317 |
The Dilemma of American National Identity | 335 |
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