The Other Founders : Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations and a Note on the Notes -- Introduction. The Other Founders -- PART I. ANTI-FEDERALISM AND THE CONSTITUTION -- Chapter 1. Ratification and the Politics of the Public Sphere -- The Dynamics of the Public Debate -- The Anti-Federalist Critique -- The Rhetoric of Ratification -- Reading Politics and the Politics of Reading -- Chapter 2. Elite Anti-Federalist Political and Constitutional Thought -- Constitutionalism -- The Problem of Federalism and Localism -- The Theory of the Small Republic -- The Public Sphere -- Chapter 3. Popular Anti-Federalist Political and Constitutional Thought -- Middling Constitutionalism -- The Political Sociology of Middling Anti-Federalism -- Centinel and Philadelphiensis: Voices of Radical Democracy -- Plebeian Populism -- The Carlisle Riot: The Constitutionalism of the Crowd -- Plebeian Radicalism and the Public Sphere -- Chapter 4. Courts, Conventions, and Constitutionalism: The Politics of the Public Sphere -- The Oswald Libel Case of 1788 -- The Aborted Second Convention Movement -- PART II. ANTI-FEDERALISM TRANSFORMED -- Chapter 5. The Emergence of a Loyal Opposition -- The Debate over the Meaning of Representation -- Rats versus Antirats -- Anti-Federalism and the Politics of the First Congress -- Chapter 6. Anti-Federalist Voices within Democratic-Republicanism -- Hamiltonianism and the Democratic-Republican Opposition -- Strict Construction and the Original Understanding -- Chapter 7. The Limits of Dissenting Constitutionalism -- The Democratic-Republican Societies -- The Whiskey Rebellion -- Federalism versus Localist Democracy -- PART III. THE ANTI-FEDERALIST LEGACY -- Chapter 8. The Founding Dialogue and the Politics of Constitutional Interpretation -- The Irony of the Search for an Original Intent.

The Sedition Act and the Transformation of Opposition Constitutionalism -- The Principles of '98 -- Chapter 9. Democratic-Republican Constitutionalism and the Public Sphere -- Public Opinion and Dissenting Political Thought -- Responses to the Alien and Sedition Crisis -- The Anti-Federalist Blackstone: St. George Tucker and a Democratic-Republican Jurisprudence -- Chapter 10. The Dissenting Tradition, from the Revolution of 1800 until Nullification -- Clinton versus Madison -- McCulloch v. Maryland and the Collapse of the Madisonian Synthesis -- The Revival of Anti-Fedealism: Robert Yates's Secret Proceedings -- Nullification and the Splintering of the Dissenting Tradition -- Van Buren and the Anti-Federalist Mind -- Epilogue. Anti-Federalism and the American Political Tradition -- Appendix 1. Reprinting of Anti-Federalist Documents -- Appendix 2. Pamphlet, Broadside, and Periodical Republication of Anti-Federalist Documents -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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