The Invention of Party Politics
Subtitle: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780807827444
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Constitution: government & the state; Constitutional & administrative law; Political parties; c 1800 to c 1900; Political Process - Political Parties; Illinois; Political Science; History - U.S.; Politics/International Relations; Political History; United States - 19th Century; United States - State & Local - General; Law / Legal History; Legal History; 19th century; History; Politics and government
First sentence: It is now familiar enough that James Madison and many of his colleagues in the Convention of 1787 had aimed to exclude party from the functioning of their new Constitution.