| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge revivals
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Routledge revivals.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Constructing a model of republican empires -- Early constitutional structures -- Creating the imperial constitution -- The struggle over the form, character, and direction of the new empire -- The republican empire of conquest -- Chief Justice John Marshall's Hamiltonian empire : turning constitutional conventions into constitutional law -- Imperial competition during the ante-belleum [i.e. ante-bellum] era -- John C. Calhoun, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates : turning constitutional theories and conventions into constitutional law -- The formation of the modern American empire. |
| Summary |
"The Imperial Republic addresses the enduring relationship that the American constitution has with the concept of "empire". Early activists frequently used the word to describe the nation they wished to create through revolution and later reform. The book examines what the Framers of the Constitution meant when they used the term "empire" and what such self-conscious empire building tells Americans about the underlying goals of their constitutional system. Utilizing the author's extensive research from colonial times to the turn of the twentieth century, the book concludes that imperial ambition has profoundly influenced American constitutional law, theory, and politics."--Jacket |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Constitutional history -- United States.
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LAW -- Constitutional. |
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LAW -- Public. |
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Constitutional history |
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United States |
| ISBN |
9781315190204 (electronic bk.) |
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1315190206 (electronic bk.) |
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9781138727830 |
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9781138727861 |
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