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The original compromise : what the Constitution's framers were really thinking
- Title
- The original compromise : what the Constitution's framers were really thinking / David Brian Robertson.
- Author
- Robertson, David Brian, 1951-
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 324 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The setting -- The remedy -- Controlling Republican politics : the main challenge -- Broad nationalism : the politics of the Virginia Plan -- Narrow nationalism : the Virginia Plan's opponents -- Selecting U.S. representatives -- Selecting U.S. senators -- Congressional independence -- Selecting the president -- Presidential independence and isolation -- The courts and a bill of rights -- Federalism -- Slavery -- Economic authority -- National security and foreign policy -- The end game -- A republic, if you can keep it.
- Call Number
- IBD 13-1487
- ISBN
- 9780199796298
- 0199796297
- LCCN
- 2012017136
- OCLC
- 785511238
- Author
- Robertson, David Brian, 1951-
- Title
- The original compromise : what the Constitution's framers were really thinking / David Brian Robertson.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- IBD 13-1487