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Publisher
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
This is the first book dealing with any period in American history which attempts to describe and analyze national politics through studying voting patterns in state legislatures. During the 1780s two relatively stable legislative parties" emerged in every state, and each state possessed common characteristics. Main labels these parties "localists" and "cosmopolitans" and show how such issues as funding of debts, paper money, and land prices provided...
7) Dynamics of the party system: alignment and realignment of political parties in the United States
Author
Publisher
The Brookings Institution
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Robert Ross addresses a fascinating and unresolved constitutional question: why did political parties emerge so quickly after the framers designed the Constitution to prevent them? The text of the Constitution is silent on this question. Most scholars of the subject have taken that silence to be a hostile one, arguing that the adoption of the two-party system was a significant break from a long history of antiparty sentiments and institutional design...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A major history of America's political parties from the founding to our embittered present. America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes readers from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today's parties, at once overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged...
18) James Madison
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Renowned historian and social commentator Garry Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first Constitutional Congress. Madison oversaw the first foreign war under the constitution, and was forced to adjust some expectations he had formed while drafting that document. Not temperamentally suited to be a wartime President,...
Author
Series
Contributions in American history volume no. 32
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English