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Title:
The other founders : Anti-Federalism and the dissenting tradition in America, 1788-1828 / by Saul Cornell.
Author:
Cornell, Saul.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1999.
Call Number:
E310 .C79 1999
Abstract:
"Fear of centralized authority is deeply rooted in American history. The struggle over the U.S. Constitution in 1788 pitted the Federalists, supporters of a stronger central government, against the Anti-Federalists, the champions of a more localist vision of politics. But, argues Saul Cornell, while the Federalists may have won the battle over ratification, it is the ideas of the Anti-Federalists that continue to define the soul of American politics."--Jacket.
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ISBN:
9780807825037

9780807847862
Physical Description:
xvi, 327 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Ratification and the politics of the public sphere -- The dynamics of the pubic debate -- The anti-Federalist critique -- The rhetoric of ratification -- Reading politics and the politics of reading -- Elite Anti-Federalist political and constitutional thought -- Constitutionalism -- The problem of Federalism and Localism -- The theory of the small republic -- The Public sphere -- Popular Anti-Federalist political and constitutional thought -- Middling Constitutionalism -- The political sociology of middling anti-Federalism -- Centinel and Philadelphiensis: voices of radical Democracy -- Plebeian Populism -- The Carlisle riot: the Constitutionalism of the crowd -- Plebeian radicalism and the public sphere -- Courts, conventions, and constitutionalism: the politics of the public sphere -- The politics of the public sphere -- The Oswald libel case of 1788 -- The aborted Second Convention Movement -- The emergence of a loyal opposition -- The debate over the meaning of representation -- Rats versus Antirats -- Anti-Federalism and the politics of the First Congress -- Anti-Federalist voices within Democratic-Republicanism -- Hamiltonianism and the Democratic-Republican opposition -- Strict construction and the original understanding -- The limits of dissenting constitutionalism -- The Demoratic-Republican societies -- The Whiskey Rebellion -- Federalism versus Localist Democracy -- The founding dialogue and the politics of constitutional interpretation -- The irony of the search for an original intent -- The Sedition Act and the transformation of opposition Constitutionalism -- The Principles of '98 --Democratic-Republican constitutionalism and the public sphere -- Public opinion and dissenting political thought -- Responses to the Alien and Sedition crisis -- The anti-Federalist Blackston: St. George Tucker and a Democratic-Republican jurisprudence -- The dissenting tradition, from the revolution of 1800 until nullification -- Clinton versus Madison -- McCulloch v. Maryland and the collapse of the Madisonian synthesis -- The revival of anti-Federalism: Robert Yates's secret proceedings -- Nullification and splintering of the dissenting tradition -- Van Buren and the anti-Federalist mind -- Epilogue: Anti-Federalism and the American political tradition -- Appendix 1. Reprinting of anti-Federalist documents -- Appendix 2. Pamphlet, broadside, and periodical republication of anti-Federalist documents.
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