Beyond Confederation : Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity.
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Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Ideologies -- The American Constitution -- The Constitution of the Thinking Revolutionary -- Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution -- Part II: Issues -- Shays’s Rebellion and the Ratification of the federal Constitution in Massachusetts -- Money, Credit, and Federalist Political Economy -- The Practicable Sphere of a Republic -- Slavery and the Constitutional Convention -- James Madison and Visions of American Nationality in the Confederation Period -- Part III: Aftermath -- The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George Washington -- The Persistence of Antifedemlism after 1789 -- Religious Dimensions of the Early American State -- Epilogue -- A Roof without Walls -- Index -- Notes on Contributors.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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