The invention of party politics federalism, popular sovereignty, and constitutional development in Jacksonian Illinois /
This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. Taking on Richard Hofstadter's classic The Idea of a Party System, it rejects the standard view that Martin Van Buren and other Jacksonian politicians had the...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2002
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| Series: | Studies in legal history
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| Summary: | This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. Taking on Richard Hofstadter's classic The Idea of a Party System, it rejects the standard view that Martin Van Buren and other Jacksonian politicians had the idea of a modern party system in mind when they built the original Democratic party.Grounded in an original retelling of Illinois politics of the 1820's and 1830's, the book also includes chapters that connect the state-level narrative to national history, from the birth of the Constitution |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (340 p.) x, 328 p |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-317) and index |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-6131-6 979-88-908754-0-2 |
| Access: | Access restricted by licensing agreement |