Partisan Republic - Democracy, Exclusion, Fall of Founders Constitution, 1780s 1830s

Provides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The new constitution; 2. The federalist constitution and the limits of constitutional dissent; 3. The democracy vs the law: the role of the federal judiciary, 1789-1815; 4. The paradoxes of Jeffersonian constitutionalism; 5. The white democracy; 6. The Marshall Court, the Indian nations, and the democratic ascendancy; Conclusion: the constitutional triumph and failure of the democratic party; Bibliographical essay; Index.

About the author

Gerald Leonard is Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law and author of The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois (2002).Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University, New York, and author of The Other Founders: Antifederalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828 (1999) and A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America (2006).

Summary

The Partisan Republic provides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era. The book focuses on the decline of the Founding generation's elitist vision of the Constitution and the rise of a more 'democratic' vision premised on the exclusion of women and non-whites.

Product details

• Authors: Professor Saul (Fordham University Cornell, Saul Cornell, Gerald Leonard, Gerald (Boston University) Cornell Leonard, Gerald F. Leonard, Professor Gerald (Boston University) Leonard, Professor Gerald (Boston University) Corn Leonard, Professor Gerald F. (Boston University) Leonard, Professor Gerald F. (Boston University) C Leonard, Leonard Gerald
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107024168
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02416-8
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: New Histories of American Law; New Histories of American Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1500 onwards to present day, Legal History, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology