The Other Founders

, by Cornell, Saul

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ISBN: 9780807847862 | 0807847860
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Copyright: 9/1/1999

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A timely look at the evolution & continuing relevance of the Anti-Federalist's opposition-to-strong central government.

Acknowledgments

vii

List of Maps

xiii

List of Abbreviations and a Note on the Notes

Introduction. The Other Founders

(18)

PART I. ANTI-FEDERALISM AND THE CONSTITUTION

Ratification and the Politics of the Public Sphere

(32)

The Dynamics of the Public Debate

(1)

The Anti-Federalist Critique

(8)

The Rhetoric of Ratification

(8)

Reading Politics and the Politics of Reading

(9)

Elite Anti-Federalist Political and Constitutional Thought

(30)

Constitutionalism

(7)

The Problem of Federalism and Localism

(7)

The Theory of the Small Republic

(6)

The Public Sphere

(7)

Popular Anti-Federalist Political and Constitutional Thought

(40)

Middling Constitutionalism

(11)

The Political Sociology of Middling Anti-Federalism

(3)

Centinel and Philadelphiensis: Voices of Radical Democracy

(8)

Plebeian Populism

107

(2)

The Carlisle Riot: The Constitutionalism of the Crowd

109

(5)

Plebeian Radicalism and the Public Sphere

114

(7)

Courts, Conventions, and Constitutionalism: The Politics of the Public Sphere

121

(26)

The Oswald Libel Case of 1788

128

(8)

The Aborted Second Convention Movement

136

(11)

PART II. ANTI-FEDERALISM TRANSFORMED

The Emergence of a Loyal Opposition

147

(25)

The Debate over the Meaning of Representation

147

(6)

Rats versus Antirats

153

(4)

Anti-Federalism and the Politics of the First Congress

157

(15)

Anti-Federalist Voices within Democratic-Republicanism

172

(23)

Hamiltonianism and the Democratic-Republican Opposition

174

(13)

Strict Construction and the Original Understanding

187

(8)

The Limits of Dissenting Constitutionalism

195

(26)

The Democratic-Republican Societies

195

(5)

The Whiskey Rebellion

200

(13)

Federalism versus Localist Democracy

213

(8)

PART III. THE ANTI-FEDERALIST LEGACY

The Founding Dialogue and the Politics of Constitutional Interpretation

221

(25)

The Irony of the Search for an Original Intent

221

(9)

The Sedition Act and the Transformation of Opposition Constitutionalism

230

(7)

The Principles of' 98

237

(9)

Democratic-Republican Constitutionalism and the Public Sphere

246

(28)

Public Opinion and Dissenting Political Thought

246

(7)

Responses to the Alien and Sedition Crisis

253

(10)

The Anti-Federalist Blackstone: St. George Tucker and a Democratic-Republican Jurisprudence

263

(11)

The Dissenting Tradition, from the Revolution of 1800 until Nullification

274

(29)

Clinton versus Madison

275

(3)

McCulloch v. Maryland and the Collapse of the Madisonian Synthesis

278

(10)

The Revival of Anti-Fedealism: Robert Yates's Secret Proceedings

288

(6)

Nullification and the Splintering of the Dissenting Tradition

294

(4)

Van Buren and the Anti-Federalist Mind

298

(5)

Epilogue. Anti-Federalism and the American Political Tradition

303

(6)

Appendix 1. Reprinting of Anti-Federalist Documents

309

(7)

Appendix 2. Pamphlet, Broadside, and Periodical Republication of Anti-Federalist Documents

316

(3)

Index

319

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The Other Founders

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