The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, by Gordon S. Wood.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press [1969]Description: xiv, 653 p. 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320/.0973
LOC classification:
  • JA84.U5 W6
Contents:
pt. I. The ideology of revolution -- ch. I. The Whig science of politics: History and reason ; The English constitution ; Power against liberty ; English corruption ; The pattern of tyranny ; The preservation of principles -- ch.II. Republicanism: - A new people for a new world ; The appeal of antiquity ; The public good ; The need for virtue ; Equality ; Whig resentment ; The Pennsylvania revolution -- ch.III. Moral reformation: The easy transition to republicanism ; The debate over the genius of the people ; Republicans by nature ; American corruption ; A Christian sparta ; Republican regeneration -- pt. II. The constitution of the states -- ch. IV. The restructuring of power: Foundations for freedom ; The transformation of the magistracy ; The power of appointment ; Separation of powers -- ch. V. The nature of representation: The representative legislature ; Virtual representation ; The explicitness of consent ; Ambassadors to an extraneous power -- ch. VI. Mixed government and bicameralism: The American defense of the mixed state ; Mixed republics ; The senatorial part of the society ; Persons and property ; Simple democracy ; A radical experiment in politics ; The homogeneity of orders ; A double representation of the people -- pt. III. The people against the legislatures -- ch. VII. Law and contracts: Written and unwritten law ; The contract of rulers and ruled ; The constitution as fundamental law ; The social contract ; The ambiguity of American law -- ch. VIII. Conventions of the people: The novelty of constitutional conventions ; The deficiency of conventions ; The people out-of-doors ; A power superior to the ordinary legislature -- ch. IX. The sovereignty of the people: The Anglo-American debate over sovereignty ; The Articles of Confederation ; The disintegration of representation ; The transferal of sovereignty ; The disembodiment of government -- pt. IV. The critical period -- ch. X. Vices of the system: The incongruity of the crisis ; The perversion of republicanism ; The abuses of legislative power ; Democratic despotism ; Political pathology ; The continuance of hope -- ch. XI. Republican remedies: Constitutional reform ; Whiggism against itself ; The revision of separation of powers ; The enhancement of the judiciary ; The abandonment of the states -- pt. V. The Federal Constitution -- ch. XII. The worthy against the licentious: The federalist revolution ; The separation of social and political authority ; Aristocracy and democracy ; The extended sphere of government ; The filtration of talent -- ch. XIII. The Federalist persuasion: The repudiation of 1776 ; Consolidation or confederation ; The primal power of the people ; The irrelevance of a bill of rights ; The alliance of power and liberty ; The checking and balancing of power ; The redefinition of bicameralism ; The triumph and end of American ideology -- pt. VI. The Revolutionary achievement -- ch. XIV. The relevance and irrelevance of John Adams: The ensnaring of the Enlightenment ; No special providence for Americans ; The balanced constitution ; The anomaly of the Defence of the Constitutions ; An inquiry into the principles and policy of the government of the United States -- ch. XV. The American science of politics: Democratic republics ; The pervasiveness of representation ; The equation of rulers and ruled ; The parceling of power ; The end of classical politics.
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pt. I. The ideology of revolution -- ch. I. The Whig science of politics: History and reason ; The English constitution ; Power against liberty ; English corruption ; The pattern of tyranny ; The preservation of principles -- ch.II. Republicanism: - A new people for a new world ; The appeal of antiquity ; The public good ; The need for virtue ; Equality ; Whig resentment ; The Pennsylvania revolution -- ch.III. Moral reformation: The easy transition to republicanism ; The debate over the genius of the people ; Republicans by nature ; American corruption ; A Christian sparta ; Republican regeneration -- pt. II. The constitution of the states -- ch. IV. The restructuring of power: Foundations for freedom ; The transformation of the magistracy ; The power of appointment ; Separation of powers -- ch. V. The nature of representation: The representative legislature ; Virtual representation ; The explicitness of consent ; Ambassadors to an extraneous power -- ch. VI. Mixed government and bicameralism: The American defense of the mixed state ; Mixed republics ; The senatorial part of the society ; Persons and property ; Simple democracy ; A radical experiment in politics ; The homogeneity of orders ; A double representation of the people -- pt. III. The people against the legislatures -- ch. VII. Law and contracts: Written and unwritten law ; The contract of rulers and ruled ; The constitution as fundamental law ; The social contract ; The ambiguity of American law -- ch. VIII. Conventions of the people: The novelty of constitutional conventions ; The deficiency of conventions ; The people out-of-doors ; A power superior to the ordinary legislature -- ch. IX. The sovereignty of the people: The Anglo-American debate over sovereignty ; The Articles of Confederation ; The disintegration of representation ; The transferal of sovereignty ; The disembodiment of government -- pt. IV. The critical period -- ch. X. Vices of the system: The incongruity of the crisis ; The perversion of republicanism ; The abuses of legislative power ; Democratic despotism ; Political pathology ; The continuance of hope -- ch. XI. Republican remedies: Constitutional reform ; Whiggism against itself ; The revision of separation of powers ; The enhancement of the judiciary ; The abandonment of the states -- pt. V. The Federal Constitution -- ch. XII. The worthy against the licentious: The federalist revolution ; The separation of social and political authority ; Aristocracy and democracy ; The extended sphere of government ; The filtration of talent -- ch. XIII. The Federalist persuasion: The repudiation of 1776 ; Consolidation or confederation ; The primal power of the people ; The irrelevance of a bill of rights ; The alliance of power and liberty ; The checking and balancing of power ; The redefinition of bicameralism ; The triumph and end of American ideology -- pt. VI. The Revolutionary achievement -- ch. XIV. The relevance and irrelevance of John Adams: The ensnaring of the Enlightenment ; No special providence for Americans ; The balanced constitution ; The anomaly of the Defence of the Constitutions ; An inquiry into the principles and policy of the government of the United States -- ch. XV. The American science of politics: Democratic republics ; The pervasiveness of representation ; The equation of rulers and ruled ; The parceling of power ; The end of classical politics.