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This book examines the ideological political contexts of the Founding era from the drafting of the Articles of Confederation to the ratification of the Constitution and the Federalist-Jeffersonian political conflict. The author highlights the constitutional and theoretical importance of state sovereignty during the Revolutionary period.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Establishing the Revolutionary Settlement
Chapter 1: King-in-Colonial Assembly: The Background to State Sovereignty
Chapter 2: Establishing and Debating the Nature of State Sovereignty: Articles of Confederation and the Politics of Early 1780s
Chapter 3: Trying to Altering the Settlement: The Critical Period and the Constitutional Convention
Chapter 4: Ratification the Constitution and Continuation of the Settlement
Part II: Defending the Revolutionary Settlement
Chapter 5: Preserving State Sovereignty: The Judiciary Act and the Tenth Amendment
Chapter 6: Breaking the Promise: Hamiltonianism
Chapter 7: The Settlement Defended: Republican Counter-Attack and the Eleventh Amendment
Chapter 8: The Settlement Secured: Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and the Defeat of the Federal Common Law
Conclusion
About the author
By Aaron N. Coleman
Summary
This book examines the ideological political contexts of the Founding era from the drafting of the Articles of Confederation to the ratification of the Constitution and the Federalist–Jeffersonian political conflict. The author highlights the constitutional and theoretical importance of state sovereignty during the Revolutionary period.
