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The Constitution and America's destiny /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Constitution and America's destiny // David Brian Robertson.
remainder title:	The Constitution & America's Destiny
Author:	Robertson, David Brian,
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 283 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Constitutional history - United States. -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511610622
ISBN:	9780511610622 (ebook)

The Constitution and America's destiny /
Robertson, David Brian,1951-

The Constitution and America's destiny /The Constitution & America's DestinyDavid Brian Robertson. - 1 online resource (xix, 283 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Politics and the Constitution -- The policy crisis of the 1780s -- James Madison's strategy for the Constitutional Convention -- The political landscape of the Constitutional Convention -- Who governs? : constituting policy agency -- What can be governed? : constituting policy authority -- How is the nation governed? : constituting the policy process -- Our inheritance : the Constitution and American politics.

In this ambitious study, Robertson explains how the U.S. 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.

ISBN: 9780511610622 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

571626
Constitutional history
--United States.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: KF4541 / .R63 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 342.7302/9

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