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Failure Of Popular Sovereignty - Slavery, Manifest Destiny, And The Radicalization Of Southern Politics

by Christopher Childers

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 As the expanding United States grappled with the question of how to determine the boundaries of slavery, politicians proposed popular sovereignty as a means of entrusting the issue to citizens of new territories. Christopher Childers now uses popular sovereignty as a lens for viewing the radicalization of southern states rights politics, demonstrating how this misbegotten offspring of slavery and Manifest Destiny, though intended to assuage passions, instead worsened sectional differences, radicalized southerners, and paved the way for secession.In this first major history of popular sovereignty, Childers explores the triangular relationship among the extension of slavery, southern politics, and territorial governance. He shows how, as politicians from North and South redesigned popular sovereignty to lessen sectional tensions and remove slavery from the national political discourse, the doctrine instead made sectional divisions intractable, placed the territorial issue at the center of national politics, and gave voice to an increasingly radical states rights interpretation of the federal compact.Childers explains how politicians offered the idea of local control over slavery as a way to appease the Southor at least as a compromise that would not offend the states rights constitutional scruples of southerners. In the end, that strategy backfired by transforming the South into a rigid sectional bloc dedicated to the protection and perpetuation of slaverya political time bomb that eventually exploded into Civil War.Tracing the doctrine of popular sovereignty back to its roots in the early American republic, Childers describes the dichotomy between believers in local control in the territories and national control as first embodied in the 1787 Northwest Ordinance. Noting that the slavery extension issue had surfaced before but obviously not been resolved, he shows how the debate over this issue played out over time, complicated the relationship between the federal government and the territories, and radicalized sectional politics. He also provides new insight into such topics as Arkansas and Florida statehood, the early phases of Californias statehood bid, and the emergence of John C. Calhouns common property doctrine.Laced with new insights, Childerss study offers a coherent narrative of the formative moments in the slavery debate that have been seen heretofore as discrete events. His work stands at the intersection of political, intellectual, and constitutional history, unfolding the formative moments in the slavery debate to expand our understanding of the peculiar institution in the early republic.
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Social Contract In America - From The Revolution To The Present Age

by Mark Hulliung

56,31€ + 10% CARD

 Because most Americans believe that government requires the consent of the governed, the idea of the social contract may come as close to a public philosophy as weve ever had. And, as Mark Hulliung reminds us, we have frequently fought our greatest political battles by wielding one or another version of social contract theory. Hulliungs book is the first to examine the role of the social contract across the entire sweep of American history, well beyond the Revolution and Founding periods. While he pays close attention to the contested versions of the social contract from 1765 to 1861, he also underscores its relevance after the Civil War, from late nineteenth-century land reform to the rights revolution of the late twentieth century.By considering this lengthy timeline, Hulliung demonstrates the life and death of what may be the most expansive and persistent form in our countrys political discourse, one that has figured in virtually all major controversies in American history. He shows how it has been enlisted by advocates of seemingly every major cause, from Henry George to Martin Luther King and Justice Clarence Thomas, whose view that constitutional authority rests in the consent of the people of each individual state, rather than of the nation as a whole, echoed the version of the social contract once held by southern slave owners.Hulliung treats the social contract as not one theory but several, considering the Americanization of Grotius and Pufendorf as well as Locke. He examines alternative readings of the contract in the struggles between claims of alienable versus inalienable rights; between consent given once and for all versus consent reaffirmed with each generation; and between the sovereignty of the people in various states versus the sovereignty of the people of the nation.Innovative and provocative, Hulliungs study clearly shows that, until we come to terms with the centrality of the social contract in American historyand the significance of its possible demisesomething essential will be missing from our accounts of the past and our understanding of the present.
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The Social Contract In America - From The Revolution To The Present Age

by Mark Hulliung

52,81€ + 10% CARD

 Because most Americans believe that government requires the consent of the governed, the idea of the social contract may come as close to a public philosophy as we’ve ever had. And, as Mark Hulliung reminds us, we have frequently fought our greatest political battles by wielding one or another version of social contract theory. Hulliung’s book is the first to examine the role of the social contract across the entire sweep of American history, well beyond the Revolution and Founding periods. While he pays close attention to the contested versions of the social contract from 1765 to 1861, he also underscores its relevance after the Civil War, from late nineteenth-century land reform to the rights revolution of the late twentieth century.By considering this lengthy timeline, Hulliung demonstrates the life and death of what may be the most expansive and persistent form in our country’s political discourse, one that has figured in virtually all major controversies in American history. He shows how it has been enlisted by advocates of seemingly every major cause, from Henry George to Martin Luther King and Justice Clarence Thomas, whose view that constitutional authority rests in the consent of the people of each individual state, rather than of the nation as a whole, echoed the version of the social contract once held by southern slave owners.Hulliung treats the social contract as not one theory but several, considering the Americanization of Grotius and Pufendorf as well as Locke. He examines alternative readings of the contract in the struggles between claims of alienable versus inalienable rights; between consent given once and for all versus consent reaffirmed with each generation; and between the sovereignty of the people in various states versus the sovereignty of the people of the nation.Innovative and provocative, Hulliung’s study clearly shows that, until we come to terms with the centrality of the social contract in American history—and the significance of its possible demise—something essential will be missing from our accounts of the past and our understanding of the present.
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A Commercial Republic - America'S Enduring Debate Over Democratic Capitalism

by Mike O'Connor

31,68€ + 10% CARD

 As recently as 2008, when Presidents Bush and Obama acted to bail out the nation’s crashing banks and failing auto companies, the perennial objection erupted anew: government has no business in . . . business. Mike O’Connor argues in this book that those who cite history to decry government economic intervention are invoking a tradition that simply does not exist. In a cogent and timely take on this ongoing and increasingly contentious debate, O’Connor uses deftly drawn historical analyses of major political and economic developments to puncture the abiding myth that business once operated apart from government. From its founding to the present day, our commercial republic has always mixed—and battled over the proper balance of—politics and economics.Contesting the claim that the modern-day libertarian conception of U.S. political economy represents the “natural” American economic philosophy, O’Connor demonstrates that this perspective has served historically as only one among many. Beginning with the early national debate over the economic plans proposed by Alexander Hamilton, continuing through the legal construction of the corporation in the Gilded Age and the New Deal commitment to full employment, and concluding with contemporary concerns over lowering taxes, this book demonstrates how the debate over government intervention in the economy has illuminated the possibilities and limits of American democratic capitalism.
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The Failure Of Popular Sovereignty - Slavery, Manifest Destiny, And The Radicalization Of Southern Politics

by Christopher Childers

57,61€ + 10% CARD

 As the expanding United States grappled with the question of how to determine the boundaries of slavery, politicians proposed popular sovereignty as a means of entrusting the issue to citizens of new territories. Christopher Childers now uses popular sovereignty as a lens for viewing the radicalization of southern states’ rights politics, demonstrating how this misbegotten offspring of slavery and Manifest Destiny, though intended to assuage passions, instead worsened sectional differences, radicalized southerners, and paved the way for secession.In this first major history of popular sovereignty, Childers explores the triangular relationship among the extension of slavery, southern politics, and territorial governance. He shows how, as politicians from North and South redesigned popular sovereignty to lessen sectional tensions and remove slavery from the national political discourse, the doctrine instead made sectional divisions intractable, placed the territorial issue at the center of national politics, and gave voice to an increasingly radical states’ rights interpretation of the federal compact.Childers explains how politicians offered the idea of local control over slavery as a way to appease the South—or at least as a compromise that would not offend the states’ rights constitutional scruples of southerners. In the end, that strategy backfired by transforming the South into a rigid sectional bloc dedicated to the protection and perpetuation of slavery—a political time bomb that eventually exploded into Civil War.Tracing the doctrine of popular sovereignty back to its roots in the early American republic, Childers describes the dichotomy between believers in local control in the territories and national control as first embodied in the 1787 Northwest Ordinance. Noting that the slavery extension issue had surfaced before but obviously not been resolved, he shows how the debate over this issue played out over time, complicated the relationship between the federal government and the territories, and radicalized sectional politics. He also provides new insight into such topics as Arkansas and Florida statehood, the early phases of California’s statehood bid, and the emergence of John C. Calhoun’s common property doctrine.Laced with new insights, Childers’s study offers a coherent narrative of the formative moments in the slavery debate that have been seen heretofore as discrete events. His work stands at the intersection of political, intellectual, and constitutional history, unfolding the formative moments in the slavery debate to expand our understanding of the peculiar institution in the early republic.
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Thomas Jefferson And The Fight Against Slavery

by Cara Rogers Stevens

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 In this groundbreaking work, Cara Rogers Stevens examines the fascinating life of Thomas Jeffersonâ€™s book, Notes on the State of Virginia, from its innocuous composition in the early 1780s to its use as a political weapon by both pro- and antislavery forces in the early nineteenth century.
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Politics Of War Powers - The Theory And History Of Presidential Unilateralism

by Sarah Burns

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 The book analyzes the theoretical and historical development of war powers in the United States. Due to a variety of changes that occurred during FDRs administration, the Cold War, and the War on Terror, Presidents now have a dangerous amount of unilateral power.
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Idea Of Presidential Representation - An Intellectual And Political History

by Jeremy D. Bailey

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 Arriving at a moment of great debate over the nature and exercise of executive power, Jeremy Bailey's history offers an invaluable, remarkably relevant analysis of the intellectual underpinnings, political usefulness, and practical merits of contending ideas of presidential representation over time.
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Benjamin Franklin Unmasked - On The Unity Of His Moral, Religious, And Political Thought

by Jerry Weinberger

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 Reveals the Benjamin Franklin behind the many masks and shows that the real Franklin was far more remarkable than anyone has yet discovered. The author shows us a powerful intellect lurking behind the leather-apron countenance. This lively, witty, and revelatory book is written for readers who want to delve into the mind of this great man.
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Vindication Of Politics - On The Common Good And Human Flourishing

by Matthew D. Wright

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 Drawing on the work of Aristotle, Aquinas, Edmund Burke, and John Finnis, A Vindication of Politics argues for the intrinsic value of political association. Rather than an activity defined by law and government, politics emerges as a cultural enterprise that connects generations and ennobles our common life.
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Empire Of The People - Settler Colonialism And The Foundations Of Modern Democratic Thought

by Adam Dahl

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 Examines the ideological development of American democratic thought in the context of settler colonialism, a distinct form of colonialism aimed at the appropriation of Native land rather than the exploitation of Native labour. In its focus on the disavowal of Native dispossession in democratic thought, the book provides a new perspective on the problematic relationship between race and democracy.
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Contested Removal Power, 1789-2010

by A01, J. David Alvis e Jeremy D. Bailey

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 "The U.S. Constitution is clear on the appointment of executive officials: the president nominates, the Senate approves. But on the question of removing those officials, the Constitution is silent--although that silence has not discouraged strenuous efforts to challenge, censure, and even impeach presidents from Andrew Jackson to Bill Clinton. As J. David Alvis, Jeremy D. Bailey, and Flagg Taylor show, the removal power has always been and continues to be a thorny issue, especially as presidential power has expanded dramatically during the past century. Linking this provocative issue to American political and constitutional development, the authors recount removal power debate from the Founding to the present day. Understanding the historical context of outbreaks in the debate, they contend, is essential to sorting out the theoretical claims from partisan maneuvering and sectional interests, enabling readers to better understand the actual constitutional questions involved. After a detailed review of the Decision of 1789, the book examines the initial assertions of executive power theory, particularly by Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, then the rise of the argument for congressional delegation, beginning with the Whigs and ending with the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. The authors chronicle the return of executive power theory in the efforts of Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Cleveland, who all battled with Congress over removals, then describe the emergence of new institutional arrangements with the creation of independent regulatory commissions. They conclude by tracking the rise of the unitarians and the challenges that this school has posed to the modern administrative state. Although many scholars consider the matter to have been settled in 1789, the authors argue that a Supreme Court case as recent as 2010--Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board--shows the extent to which questions surrounding removal power remain unresolved and demand more attention. Their work offers a more nuanced and balanced account of the debate, teasing out the logic of the different institutional perspectives on this important constitutional question as no previous book has"--
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Constitution In Full - Recovering The Unwritten Foundation Of American Liberty

by Ii Reinsch Richard M. e Peter Augustine Lawler

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 When political debates devolve into a contest between big-government progressivism and natural rights individualism, Americans tend to appeal to the ""self-evident"" truths inscribed in the Constitution. But Peter Lawler and Richard Reinsch remind us that these truths are untethered from a prior, unwritten constitution presupposed by the Framers.
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Anti-Federalist Constitution - The Development Of Dissent In The Ratification Debates

by Michael J. Faber

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 What would an Anti-Federalist Constitution look like? Michael Faber presents an alternative perspective on constitutional history. Telling, in a sense, the other side of the story of the Constitution, his book offers key insights into the ideas that helped to form America's founding document.
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Father Of Liberty - Jonathan Mayhew And The Principles Of The American Revolution

by Patrick Mullins

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 This is the first book on the political thought and activism of the controversial colonial era Boston minister, Dr. Jonathan Mayhew.
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John C. Calhoun'S Theory Of Republicanism

by John G. Grove

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 By tracing John C. Calhoun's ideas over the course of his political career, John G. Grove unravels the relationship between the theory of the concurrent majority and civic harmony, constitutional reform, and American slavery. In doing so, Grove distinguishes Calhoun's political philosophy from his practical, political commitment to states' rights and slavery.
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American Dream - In History, Politics, And Fiction

by Cal Jillson

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 The decline of social mobility and the rise of income inequality - to say nothing of the extraordinary social, political, and economic developments of the Bush and Obama presidencies - have convinced many that the American Dream is no more. This is the concern that Cal Jillson addresses in The American Dream: In History, Politics, and Fiction.
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Two Cities - The Political Thought Of American Transcendentalism

by Daniel S. Malachuk

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 Illuminates the distinctive historical as well as normative importance of the political thought of American Transcendentalism as realized in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau.
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Jury In America - Triumph And Decline

by Dennis Hale

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 This book examines the debate over the American jury system from the era of its greatest influence in the republican era, to the present a time when juries are said to be "vanishing."
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Religious Beliefs Of America'S Founders - Reason, Revelation, And Revolution

by Gregg L. Frazer

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 The first comprehensive analysis of the Founders' religious beliefs as they themselves expressed them. Contends that they were neither what contemporary secularists nor what contemporary Christians often wish they were--that is, neither deist nor Christian.
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African American Environmental Thought - Foundations

by Kimberly K. Smith

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 Links African American and environmental studies to show that black Americans have been far from indifferent to environmental concerns. This book examines the works of such canonical figures as Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington, and others, who wrote about how slavery and racial oppression affected black Americans' relationship to environment.
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God Against The Revolution - The Loyalist Clergy''S Case Against The American Revolution

by Gregg L. Frazer

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 A study of the legal, rational, theoretical, and biblical arguments made by the Loyalist clergy opposed to the American Revolution.
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Political Thought Of The Civil War

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 Explores the political dilemmas of the Civil War: the status of slavery and race in the American founding, the tension between morality and constitutionalism, and the problem of creating and sustaining a multiracial society on the basis of the original constitution.
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Liberty And Union - The Civil War Era And American Constitutionalism

by Timothy S. Huebner

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 A brilliant, imaginative, and original re-examination that synthesizes the histories of the Civil War, of constitutional and legal development, and of the African American experience.
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