To make a nation: the rediscovery of American federalism

Samuel H. Beer

Resource Type:: Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:: Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993

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Table of Contents:: The rule of the wise and the holy : Thomas Aquinas
The idea of the national republic : John Milton
A constitution for the national republic : James Harrington
The conflict of ideas
The decade of agitation
The discovery of the nation
Montesquieu's confederate republic
Madison's compound republic
Auxiliary precautions
Sovereignty and ratification
James Wilson's social union
Conclusion : liberty and union.
Author/Creator:: Beer, Samuel H. (Samuel Hutchison), 1911-2009
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Main Work:: To make a nation: the rediscovery of American federalism [by Beer, S.H.]
Subjects:: Federal government — United States — History
Political science — United States — History
Political science — History
Federal government
Political science
United States
Genres:: History
General Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-457) and index.
Physical Description:: xxi, 474 pages ; 24 cm
Call Numbers:: JK325 .B38 1993
ISBNs:: 0674602129 (alk. paper)
0674893174
Library of Congress Control Numbers:: 92012077
OCLC Numbers:: 25631558