The Ideological Origins Of American Federalism Alison L Lacroix Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Social Sciences Politics - Current Affairs

Federalism Is Regarded As One Of The Signal American Contributions To Modern Politics Its Origins Are Typically Traced Drafting Constitution But Story Began Decades Before Delegates Met In Philadelphia This Groundbreaking Book Alison Lacroix Traces History Federal Thought From Colonial Beginnings Scattered Provincial Responses British Assertions Authority Emergence Late Eighteenth Century A Normative Theory Multilayered Government Core New Ideology Was Belief That Multiple Independent Levels Could Legitimately Exist Within Single Polity And Such An Arrangement Not Defect Virtue Became Foundational Principle Aspiration Political Enterprise Thus Challenges Traditional Account Republican Dominant Framework For Eighteenth-Century Understanding Emerging Returns Constitutional Central Place It Occupied Founders Necessary Adaptation Make Already Designed System Work Connecting Revolutionary Founding Early National Periods Reveals Fundamental Reconfigurations Legal Power Accompanied Formation United States Should Be Understood Critical Ideological Development Period Essential Reading Everyone Interested Σελίδες: 320 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1015 Διαστάσεις: 14 4X14 4Cm