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Author:

Robertson, David Brian, 1951-

Title:

The original compromise : what the Constitution's framers were really thinking / David Brian Robertson.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xvii, 324 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Political science--United States--History--18th century.
United States--Philosophy.--Philosophy.
United States--Politics and government--1783-1789.
United States.--Constitutional Convention--(1787)
Constitutional history--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-301) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- A republic, if you can keep it. 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.

ISBN:

0199796297 (acid-free paper)
9780199796298 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)785511238

LCCN:

2012017136

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)