Recreating the American republic : rules of apportionment, constitutional change, and American political development, 1700-1870 / Charles A. Kromkowski
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; TABLES; FIGURES; Preface; CONCLUSION; 1 Introduction; CASE SELECTION; EXPLANATIONS OF POLITICAL CHANGE; NEW INSTITUTIONALISM AND RATIONALITY MODELS; RESEARCH DESIGN; ORGANIZATION; CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE I: 1700-1781; 2 Raising Leviathan: British-American Relations, 1700-1774; 3 Our Emperors Have No Clothes: The Macro-Micro Synthesis and the American Revolution; 4 Union over Multiplicity: A Bond of Words, a Confederation in Speech, and the Constitutional Rule of Equal State ... ; CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE II: 1781-1789
Summary
Political historians recognize the colonial years and the American Revolution, the early national era and the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the nineteenth century and the American Civil War as the three most important eras in American history. Recreating the American Republic offers the first comparative historical analysis and synthesis of these
