Book contents
- The Partisan Republic
- New Histories of American Law
- The Partisan Republic
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The New Constitution
- 2 The Federalist Constitution and the Limits of Constitutional Dissent
- 3 The Democracy versus the Law: The Role of the Federal Judiciary, 1789–1815
- 4 The Paradoxes of Jeffersonian Constitutionalism
- 5 The White Democracy
- 6 The Marshall Court, the Indian Nations, and the Democratic Ascendancy
- Conclusion: The Constitutional Triumph and Failure of the Democratic Party
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2019
Book contents
- The Partisan Republic
- New Histories of American Law
- The Partisan Republic
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The New Constitution
- 2 The Federalist Constitution and the Limits of Constitutional Dissent
- 3 The Democracy versus the Law: The Role of the Federal Judiciary, 1789–1815
- 4 The Paradoxes of Jeffersonian Constitutionalism
- 5 The White Democracy
- 6 The Marshall Court, the Indian Nations, and the Democratic Ascendancy
- Conclusion: The Constitutional Triumph and Failure of the Democratic Party
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
Summary
The Introduction explains the chronological and thematic structure of the book. It summarizes the interaction over time between democratization of the U.S. Constitution and increasingly firm exclusions of most Americans from public life between the 1780s and 1830s.
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- The Partisan RepublicDemocracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders' Constitution, 1780s–1830s, pp. 1 - 7Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019