LEADER 00000cam a2200793Ii 4500 001 ocn926101818 003 OCoLC 005 20230113054233.0 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 151023s2015 ilua ob 001 0 eng d 019 927159995 020 9780226297118|q(electronic book) 020 022629711X|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780226297088 035 (OCoLC)926101818|z(OCoLC)927159995 037 845434|bMIL 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dN$T|dYDXCP|dIDEBK|dEBLCP|dDEBSZ |dOH1|dIDB|dOCLCQ|dHEBIS|dOCLCO|dMERUC|dFIE|dOCLCQ|dUUM |dOCLCF|dKSU|dEZ9|dINT|dOCLCQ|dTKN|dOCLCA|dDEGRU|dOCLCQ |dOCLCA|dOCLCO 043 n-us--- 049 RIDW 050 4 HS61|b.A18 2015eb 072 7 SOC|x000000|2bisacsh 082 04 367/.97309034|223 090 HS61|b.A18 2015eb 100 1 Butterfield, Kevin,|d1975-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities /names/no2015057751|eauthor. 245 14 The making of Tocqueville's America :|blaw and association in the early United States /|cKevin Butterfield. 264 1 Chicago :|bThe University of Chicago Press,|c2015. 300 1 online resource :|billustrations. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 American beginnings, 1500-1900 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction -- The concept of membership in America, 1783 -- 1815 -- Friendship, formalities, and membership in post -revolutionary America -- Politics, citizenship, and association -- A common law of membership -- Practices and limits, 1800 -- 1840 -- Everyday constitutionalism in a nation of joiners -- When shareholders were members: the business corporation as voluntary association -- Determining the rights of members -- Consequences: civil society in antebellum America -- Labor unions and an American law of membership -- Conclusion: the concept of membership in the age of reform. 520 Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations--and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand how and why early nineteenth- century Americans were, in Tocqueville's words, "forever forming associations." In The Making of Tocqueville's America, Kevin Butterfield argues that to understand this, we need to first ask: what did membership really mean to the growing number of affiliated Americans? Butterfield explains that the first generations of American citizens found in the concept of membership--in churches, fraternities, reform societies, labor unions, and private business corporations--a mechanism to balance the tension between collective action and personal autonomy, something they accomplished by emphasizing law and procedural fairness. As this post-Revolutionary procedural culture developed, so too did the legal substructure of American civil society. Tocqueville, then, was wrong to see associations as the training ground for democracy, where people learned to honor one another's voices and perspectives. 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