bokomslag The Constitution and America's Destiny
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The Constitution and America's Destiny

David Brian Robertson

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  • 304 sidor
  • 2005
In this ambitious study, Robertson explains how the US Constitution emerged from an intense battle between a bold vision for the nation's political future and the tenacious defense of its political present. Given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to alter America's destiny, James Madison laid before the Constitutional Convention a plan for a strong centralized government that could battle for America's long-term interests. But delegates from vulnerable states resisted this plan, seeking instead to maintain state control over most of American life while adding a few more specific powers to the existing government. These clashing aspirations turned the Convention into an unpredictable chain of events. Step-by-step, the delegates' compromises built national powers in a way no one had anticipated, and produced a government more complex and hard to use than any of them originally intended. Their Constitution, in turn, helped create a politics unlike that in any other nation.
  • Författare: David Brian Robertson
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780521607780
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2005-08-01
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press