The Ideological Origins of American Federalism

The Ideological Origins of American Federalism
ISBN-10
0674048865
ISBN-13
9780674048867
Category
History
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Alison L. LaCroix

Description

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.

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