The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 / by Gordon S. Wood.
Publisher's description: Illuminates the concepts of the Constitution by studying the cultural situation of the colonists.
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1: The ideology of revolution. The Whig science of politics
- Republicanism
- Moral reformation
- pt. 2: The constitution of the states. The restructuring of power
- The nature of representation
- Mixed government and bicameralism
- pt. 3: The people against the legislatures. Law and contracts
- Conventions of the people
- The sovereignty of the people
- pt. 4: The critical period. Vices of the system
- Republican remedies
- pt. 5: The federal constitution. The worthy against the licentious
- The Federalism persuasion
- pt. 6: The revolutionary achievement. The relevance and irrelevance of John Adams
- The American science of politics.