Representation in the American revolution
By: Gordon S. Wood.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780813927220
Subjects: Representative government and representation; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
Description: "From one of America's most celebrated historians, the Pulitzer Prize winner Gordon S. Wood, comes an early work whose relevance is undiminished. Originally published in 1969, now revised and with a new preface, Representation in the American Revolution examines the ways in which a government is created and how, in the face of great difficulties as well as great possibilities, its citizens are represented. Written immediately after the completion of Wood's The Creation of the American Republic, this book elaborates on issues also explored in that work."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Virtual representation; title: The explicitness of consent; title: Democracy in the mixed republics; title: The disintegration of representation; title: The Federalists and the Anti-Federalists on representative government; title: The end of classical politics.