Download pdf A Revolution in Favor of Government : Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State
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Author: Research Fellow and University Lecturer Max M Edling
Page Count: 336 pages
Published Date: 10 Jul 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780195374162
File Name: A.Revolution.in.Favor.of.Government.Origins.of.the.U.S..Constitution.and.the.Making.of.the.American.State.pdf
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In this trenchant new interpretation of America's origins, Max Edling shows that the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of war-making and resource-extraction from the states to the national government, thereby creating a nation-state invested with all the important powers of Europe's eighteenth-century 'fiscal-military states.'A strong centralized government such as this, however, challenged the American people's deeply ingrained distrust of unduly concentrated authority. To secure the Constitution's adoption in the face of this inherent suspicion, the Federalists had to balance the formation of a powerful national government with the strong current of anti-statism in the American political tradition. They did so, Edling argues, by designing a government that would be powerful in times of crisis, but which would make only limited demands on the citizenry and have a sharply restricted presence in society. Taking advantage of a newly published letterpress edition of the constitutional debates, A Revolution in Favor of Government recovers a neglected strand of the Federalist argument, making a persuasive case for rethinking the formation of the federal American state.
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A Revolution in Favor of Government : Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State. Research Fellow and University Lecturer Max M Edling
Author: Research Fellow and University Lecturer Max M Edling
Page Count: 336 pages
Published Date: 10 Jul 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780195374162
File Name: A.Revolution.in.Favor.of.Government.Origins.of.the.U.S..Constitution.and.the.Making.of.the.American.State.pdf
Download Link: A Revolution in Favor of Government Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State
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In this trenchant new interpretation of America's origins, Max Edling shows that the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of war-making and resource-extraction from the states to the national government, thereby creating a nation-state invested with all the important powers of Europe's eighteenth-century 'fiscal-military states.'A strong centralized government such as this, however, challenged the American people's deeply ingrained distrust of unduly concentrated authority. To secure the Constitution's adoption in the face of this inherent suspicion, the Federalists had to balance the formation of a powerful national government with the strong current of anti-statism in the American political tradition. They did so, Edling argues, by designing a government that would be powerful in times of crisis, but which would make only limited demands on the citizenry and have a sharply restricted presence in society. Taking advantage of a newly published letterpress edition of the constitutional debates, A Revolution in Favor of Government recovers a neglected strand of the Federalist argument, making a persuasive case for rethinking the formation of the federal American state.
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