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Revolution in Favor of Government : Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the ...
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- Revolution in Favor of Government : Origins of the . Constitution and the Making of the American State, Paperback by Edling, Max M., ISBN 0195374169, ISBN-13 9780195374162, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
In this trenchant new interpretation of America's origins, Max Edling shows that the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of war-making and resource-extraction from<br>the states to the national government, thereby creating a nation-state invested with all the important powers of Europe's eighteenth-century 'fiscal-military states.'A strong centralized government such as this, however, challenged the American people's deeply ingrained distrust of unduly<br>concentrated authority. To secure the Constitution's adoption in the face of this inherent suspicion, the Federalists had to balance the formation of a powerful national government with the strong current of anti-statism in the American political tradition. They did so, Edling argues, by designing a<br>government that would be powerful in times of crisis, but which would make only limited demands on the citizenry and have a sharply restricted presence in society. Taking advantage of a newly published letterpress edition of the constitutional debates, <em>A Revolution in Favor of Government</em> recovers a<br>neglected strand of the Federalist argument, making a persuasive case for rethinking the formation of the federal American state.<br>
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