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Jefferson, Madison, and the making of the Constitution / Jeff Broadwater

Author
Broadwater, Jeff
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xv, 274 pages ; 25 cm

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Contents
The coarse and dry study of the law : 1743-1774 -- A happy talent of composition : 1774-1776 -- A friendship was formed : 1776-1781 -- All the world is becoming commercial : 1781-1785 -- Confusion . . . must stifle all enterprize : 1784-1786 -- A new government must be made : 1786-1787 -- Opposition enough to do good : 1787-1788 -- Let us secure what we can : 1788-1789.
Summary
"Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution, " were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies. Yet historians have often seen a tension between the idealistic rhetoric of the Declaration and the more pedestrian language of the Constitution. Moreover, to some, the adoption of the Constitution represented a repudiation of the democratic values of the Revolution. In this book, Jeff Broadwater explores the evolution of the constitutional thought of these two seminal American figures, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the adoption of the Bill of Rights"--
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9781469651019 hardcover alkaline paper
1469651017 hardcover alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the James F. Robb Fund ; 2018
Endowment Note
James F. Robb Fund
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