The lovers' quarrel
Subtitle: the two foundings and American political development
By: Elvin Lim
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199812189
Subjects: Constitutional history; Politics and government; Political science; History
Description: "Traces the core conflict of the American republic - the debate between the central government-favoring Federalists and the individual rights-favoring Anti-Federalists - from the 1790s to the present, showing how these two ideological impulses have fueled practically all of the major political debates and contests in U.S. history"--
Table of contents: title: 1. The Lovers' Quarrel: A Tale of Two Foundings; title: 2 Federalists v. Republicans; title: 3 Anti-Federalism & the Howls of Jacksonian Democracy; title: 4 The Civil War & Publius Redux; title: 5 Anti-Federalism & the Progressive Creative Destruction; title: 6 The New Deal & the Nationalized Rhetoric of the Small Republic; title: 7 Anti-Federalism & the Reagan Revolution; title: 8 Epilogue: The Modern Tea Party vs. Obama, & Beyond,; title: Appendix I: A Defense of APD defined as Durable Shifts in Federal Authority; title: Appendix II: The Federalist Legacy; title: Appendix III: The Anti-Federalist Legacy; title: Notes; title: Index.