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The ideological origins of American federalism / Alison L. LaCroix.
- Title
- The ideological origins of American federalism / Alison L. LaCroix.
- Author
- LaCroix, Alison L.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2010.
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- Description
- 312 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In this book, the author traces the history of American federal thought from its colonial beginnings in scattered provincial responses to British assertions of authority, to its emergence in the late eighteenth century as a normative theory of multilayered government. The core of this new federal ideology was a belief that multiple independent levels of government could legitimately exist within a single polity, and that such an arrangement was not a defect but a virtue.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: a well-constructed union -- The federal idea -- Dividing lawmaking power -- The debates over sovereignty -- Forging a federated union -- The authority of a central government -- Jurisdiction as the battlefield -- Epilogue: federalism demystified.
- ISBN
- 9780674048867 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0674048865 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009035216
- OCLC
- 435628908
- SCSB-10140208
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library