Author:
Mayer, David N.
Imprint:Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Descriptionxiv, 397 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:1. "Bold in the Pursuit of Knowledge": The Education of an American Real Whig -- 2. "Causes Which Have Impelled Us to the Separation": The Logic of the American Revolution -- 3. "Our Revolution Commenced on More Favorable Ground": The Foundations of Republican Government -- 4. "The Interesting Experiment of Self-Government": The Evolution of Republican Constitutionalism -- 5. "We Are All Federalists, We Are All Republicans": The Republican "Revolution" of 1800 and Beyond -- 6. "Certain Fences against Wrong": The Federal Constitution and the Bill of Rights -- 7. "The True Theory of Our Constitution": Federalism and the Limits of Federal Power -- 8. "Bound by the Chains of the Constitution": The Presidency and Executive Power -- 9. "A Solecism in a Republican Government": The Judiciary and Judicial Review -- 10. "Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind": Constitutional Change and the Preservation of Republicanism -- Conclusion: Government "Founded in Jealousy, and Not in Confidence".
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-385) and index.
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