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  title info:
    title: Perfecting the union
    sub title: national and state authority in the US Constitution
  name:
    name part: Edling, Max M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 194 pages)
  abstract: "Habitually interpreted as the fundamental law of the American republic, the US Constitution was in fact designed as an instrument of union between thirteen American republics and as a form of government for their common central government. It offered an organizational solution to the security concerns of the newly independent American states. Confederation was an established means for weak states to maintain their independence by joining in union to manage relations with the outside world from a position of strength. Confederation also transformed the immediate international environment by turning neighboring states from potential enemies into sister states in a common union or peace pact. The US Constitution profoundly altered the structure of the American union and made the federal government more effective than under the defunct Articles of Confederation. But it did not transform the fundamental purpose of the federal union, which remained the management of relations between the American states, on the one hand, and between the American states and foreign powers, on the other hand. As had been the case under the articles, the states regulated the social, economic, and civic life of their citizens and inhabitants with only limited supervision and control from the federal government. Interpreting the Constitution as an instrument of union has important implications for our understanding of the American founding. The Constitution mattered much more to the international than to the domestic history of the United States. Its importance to the latter was dwarfed by that of state constitutions and legislation"--
  table of contents: Introduction : revisiting the critical period -- Peace pact and nation : the Constitution as a compact between states -- Union : empowering a new national government -- Internal police : the residual power of the states -- Legislation : implementing the constitution -- Conclusion : toward a new understanding of the founding.
  note: Max M. Edling.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Constitutional law
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Constitutional law
    geographic: United States
    topic: States
  subject:
    topic: Constitutional law
  subject:
    topic: Constitutional law
    topic: U.S. states
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: KF4550 .E37 2021
  classification: 342.73/042
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    title info:
      title: Perfecting the union
    name:
      name part: Edling, Max M..
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
    identifier: (DLC) 2020024084
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200526
    record change date: 20260319182324.2
    record identifier: in00005718650
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng