The Constitution and America's destiny
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The Constitution and America's destiny
Cambridge University Press, 2005
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- : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In this ambitious study, Robertson explains how the US Constitution emerged from an intense battle between a bold vision for the nation's political future and the tenacious defense of its political present. Given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to alter America's destiny, James Madison laid before the Constitutional Convention a plan for a strong centralized government that could battle for America's long-term interests. But delegates from vulnerable states resisted this plan, seeking instead to maintain state control over most of American life while adding a few more specific powers to the existing government. These clashing aspirations turned the Convention into an unpredictable chain of events. Step-by-step, the delegates' compromises built national powers in a way no one had anticipated, and produced a government more complex and hard to use than any of them originally intended. Their Constitution, in turn, helped create a politics unlike that in any other nation.
目次
- 1. Politics and the constitution
- 2. The policy crisis of the 1780s
- 3. James Madison's strategy for the constitutional convention
- 4. The political landscape of the constitutional convention
- 5. Who governs? Constituting policy agency
- 6. What can be governed? Constituting policy authority
- 7. How is the nation governed? Constituting the policy process
- 8. Our inheritance: the constitution and American politics.
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