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A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State
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.
Author: Max M. Edling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/08/2008
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780195374162
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.
Author: Max M. Edling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/08/2008
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780195374162
About the Author
Max M. Edling is Research Fellow and University Lecturer, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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