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Author Hendrickson, David C., author.
Title Peace pact : the lost world of the American founding / David C. Hendrickson.
Publisher Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2003]
Copyright date ©2003


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Descript xiv, 402 pages ; 24 cm.
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Contents Introduction -- To Philadelphia -- The great debate of 1788 -- The unionist paradigm -- An experiment in international cooperation -- The lessons of history -- An age of inquiry -- Greece and Rome -- Universal monarchy nd the balance of power: the view from the eighteenth century -- Républiques Fédérative and Machiavellian moments -- The British setting: continental connections and the balanced constitution -- The British Empire and the American Revolution -- From war to war -- Constitutional crisis -- Burden-sharing and representation -- Plans of union and the imperial predicament -- "The great Serbonian bog" -- Rights and wrongs, prophets and seers -- Independence and union -- Articles of confederation and perpetual union -- Problematics of union -- "The Dickinson plan" -- Deadlock and compromise -- The basis of congressional authority -- A foreign policy of independence -- Foundations of the new diplomacy -- States, sections, and foreign policy -- The armistice of 1783 -- Peace pace: the writing and ratification of the constitution -- Vices of the critical period -- To the great compromise -- Commerce, slavery, and Machiavellian moment -- "A feudal system of Republics" -- Federals and anti-federals -- Conclusion.
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Author Hendrickson, David C., author.
Series American political thought
American political thought.
Subject Federal government -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Political science -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
Descript xiv, 402 pages ; 24 cm.
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
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Contents Introduction -- To Philadelphia -- The great debate of 1788 -- The unionist paradigm -- An experiment in international cooperation -- The lessons of history -- An age of inquiry -- Greece and Rome -- Universal monarchy nd the balance of power: the view from the eighteenth century -- Républiques Fédérative and Machiavellian moments -- The British setting: continental connections and the balanced constitution -- The British Empire and the American Revolution -- From war to war -- Constitutional crisis -- Burden-sharing and representation -- Plans of union and the imperial predicament -- "The great Serbonian bog" -- Rights and wrongs, prophets and seers -- Independence and union -- Articles of confederation and perpetual union -- Problematics of union -- "The Dickinson plan" -- Deadlock and compromise -- The basis of congressional authority -- A foreign policy of independence -- Foundations of the new diplomacy -- States, sections, and foreign policy -- The armistice of 1783 -- Peace pace: the writing and ratification of the constitution -- Vices of the critical period -- To the great compromise -- Commerce, slavery, and Machiavellian moment -- "A feudal system of Republics" -- Federals and anti-federals -- Conclusion.
ISBN 9780700612376 (alk. paper)
9780700614936 (paperback)
0700614931 (pbk.) :
0700612378 (cased) :
Author Hendrickson, David C., author.
Series American political thought
American political thought.
Subject Federal government -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Political science -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
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 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  JK 116 H4  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Federal government -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Political science -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
Descript xiv, 402 pages ; 24 cm.
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Introduction -- To Philadelphia -- The great debate of 1788 -- The unionist paradigm -- An experiment in international cooperation -- The lessons of history -- An age of inquiry -- Greece and Rome -- Universal monarchy nd the balance of power: the view from the eighteenth century -- Républiques Fédérative and Machiavellian moments -- The British setting: continental connections and the balanced constitution -- The British Empire and the American Revolution -- From war to war -- Constitutional crisis -- Burden-sharing and representation -- Plans of union and the imperial predicament -- "The great Serbonian bog" -- Rights and wrongs, prophets and seers -- Independence and union -- Articles of confederation and perpetual union -- Problematics of union -- "The Dickinson plan" -- Deadlock and compromise -- The basis of congressional authority -- A foreign policy of independence -- Foundations of the new diplomacy -- States, sections, and foreign policy -- The armistice of 1783 -- Peace pace: the writing and ratification of the constitution -- Vices of the critical period -- To the great compromise -- Commerce, slavery, and Machiavellian moment -- "A feudal system of Republics" -- Federals and anti-federals -- Conclusion.
ISBN 9780700612376 (alk. paper)
9780700614936 (paperback)
0700614931 (pbk.) :
0700612378 (cased) :
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