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The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, by Gordon S. Wood.

Title
The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, by Gordon S. Wood.
Author
Wood, Gordon S.
Publication
New York, Norton [1972, c1969]

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Description
xiv, 653 p.; 20 cm.
Series Statement
Norton library ; N644
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Reprint. Originally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1969.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. The ideology of revolution. 1. The Whig science of politics -- 2. Republicanism -- 3. Moral reformation -- II. The constitution of the states. 4. The restructuring of power -- 5. The nature of representation -- 6. Mixed government and bicameralism -- III. The people against the legislatures. 7. Law and contracts -- 8. Conventions of the people -- 9. The sovereignty of the people -- IV. The critical period. 10. Vices of the system -- 11. Republican remedies -- V. The federal constitution. 12. The worthy against the licentious -- 13. The federalist persuasion -- VI. The revolutionary achievement. 14. The relevance and irrelevance of John Adams -- 15. The American science of politics.
ISBN
0393006441
LCCN
^^^72004595^//r83
OCLC
  • 637998005
  • SCSB-10035940
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library