Conceptual Change and the Constitution

In this volume distinguished historians and political scientists examine political discourse during that short span of years from the Revolution through ratification, a period of profound political and conceptual change. The concepts of sovereignty, representation, liberty, virtue, republic, democracy--even constitution itself--were virtually recoined. Others, like federalism, were new inventions. Out of the vehement political arguments and debates of the period came not only a new Constitution but a new political vocabulary--a political idiom that was distinctly recognizably American.

Author: Terence Ball
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 09/15/1998
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.12w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780700603695