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Governed by a Spirit of Opposition : The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421415284
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Governed by a Spirit of OppositionDDC classification:
  • 974.8/11
LOC classification:
  • F158.4 .R66 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Named Before Thou Wert Born": A City Imagined and Realized -- 2 Intoxicated with Power: Chartering the Philadelphia Corporation -- 3 For a General Benefit: Developing Popular Voluntary Associations -- 4 Amidst "Rancour and Party Hatred": Association by Exclusion -- 5 Lending in Plain Sight: Covert Banks -- 6 Private Men Interfering with Government: Taking Over from the State -- 7 Mars Ascendant: The Military Association and the Reconstitution of Government -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: Rather, the Revolution built upon a long history of civic engagement and a complicated relationship between the practice of majority-rule and exclusionary policy-making on the part of appointed and self-selected constituencies.
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Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Named Before Thou Wert Born": A City Imagined and Realized -- 2 Intoxicated with Power: Chartering the Philadelphia Corporation -- 3 For a General Benefit: Developing Popular Voluntary Associations -- 4 Amidst "Rancour and Party Hatred": Association by Exclusion -- 5 Lending in Plain Sight: Covert Banks -- 6 Private Men Interfering with Government: Taking Over from the State -- 7 Mars Ascendant: The Military Association and the Reconstitution of Government -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Rather, the Revolution built upon a long history of civic engagement and a complicated relationship between the practice of majority-rule and exclusionary policy-making on the part of appointed and self-selected constituencies.

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