All politics is local: family, friends, and provincial interests in the creation of the Constitution

"All Politics Is Local closely analyzes exactly what Connecticut constituents expected their representatives to achieve in Philadelphia and suggests that other states' citizens also demanded their own special returns. Collier avoids popular theory in his convincing argument that any seriou...

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1. Verfasser: Collier, Christopher (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hanover, N.H. University Press of New England 2003
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Zusammenfassung:"All Politics Is Local closely analyzes exactly what Connecticut constituents expected their representatives to achieve in Philadelphia and suggests that other states' citizens also demanded their own special returns. Collier avoids popular theory in his convincing argument that any serious modern effort to understand the Constitution as conceived by its framers must pay close attention to the state-specific needs and desires of the era." "Challenging all previous interpretations, Collier demonstrates that Connecticut's forty antifederalist representatives were motivated not by economic, geographic, intellectual, or ideological factors, but by family and militia connections, local politics, and other considerations that had nothing to do with the Constitution. Finding no overarching truth, no common ideological thread binding the antifederalists together, Collier calls for the same state-centered micro-study for the other twelve founding states. To do less leaves historical and contemporary interpretations of the U.S. Constitution not simply blurred around the edges but incomplete at the core as well."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index
Beschreibung:xi, 224 p. ill., maps : 24 cm
ISBN:158465290X

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