The Shaping of American Liberalism - The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery

Acknowledgments 1: Republicanism as a Political Tradition 2: The Categories of American Political Thought Pt. 1: The Ratification Debate 3: Anti-Federalists and Anti-Republicans 4: The "Nationalist" Papers Pt. 2: The Nullification Debate 5: John C. Calhoun, South Carolina, and the Union 6: Daniel Webster's Patriotic Community Pt. 3: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 7: Stephen A. Douglas, Slavery, and Pluralist Democracy 8: Abraham Lincoln and the House United 9: Republicanism as Bad Conscience Notes Index

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Summary

A critique of the ideas espoused in In The Liberal Tradition in America (1955), Louis Hartz, and those of its detractors, such as Bernard Bailyn, who argued that preliberal, republican values initially held sway in eighteenth-century American politics.

Product details

• Authors: Ericson, David F. Ericson, Ericson David F.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1993
• EAN: 9780226216843
• ISBN: 978-0-226-21684-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, United States of America, USA, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies