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Founding visions : the ideas, individuals, and intersections that created America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Banning, Lance, 1942-2006 (Author)
Other Authors: Estes, Todd, 1963- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Subjects:
United States > Politics and government > 1789-1815.
United States > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Constitutional history > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The enduring issues of the American Revolution, 1776-1815
  • The problem of power: parties, aristocracy, and democracy in revolutionary thought
  • Part II. Republicanism, liberalism, and the great transition
  • Jeffersonian ideology revisited: liberal and classical ideas in the new American republic
  • The Republican interpretation: retrospect and prospect
  • Some second thoughts on virtue and the course of revolutionary thinking
  • Quid transit? Paradigms and process in the transformation of Republican ideas
  • Part III. The Constitution
  • The Constitutional Convention
  • The Federalist Papers
  • 1787 and 1776: Patrick Henry, James Madison, the Constitution, and the Revolution
  • Part IV. James Madison
  • James Madison and the nationalists, 1780-1783
  • The Hamiltonian Madison: a reconsideration
  • The practicable sphere of a republic: James Madison, the Constitutional Convention, and the emergence of revolutionary federalism
  • Part V. The first party conflict
  • Political economy and the creation of the federal republic
  • The Jeffersonians: first principles.