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03988aam a2200445 i 4500 001 01A4746A9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 181004t20192019enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018046210 020 $a 1107024161 020 $a 9781107024168 020 $a 110766389X 020 $a 9781107663893 035 $a (OCoLC)1055458735 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d COO $d QGJ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a KF4541 L396 2019 100 1 $a Leonard, Gerald Flood $e author. 245 14 $a The partisan republic : $b democracy, exclusion, and the fall of the founders' constitution, 1780s-1830s / $c Gerald Leonard, Boston University, Saul Cornell, Fordham University. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a ix, 247 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a New histories of American law 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The Partisan Republic is the first book to unite a top down and bottom up account of constitutional change in the Founding era. The book focuses on the decline of the Founding generation's elitist vision of the Constitution and the rise of a more "democratic" vision premised on the exclusion of women and non-whites. It incorporates recent scholarship on topics ranging from judicial review to popular constitutionalism to place judicial initiatives like Marbury v. Madisonin a broader, socio-legal context. The book recognizes the role of constitutional outsiders as agents in shaping the law, making figures such as the Whiskey Rebels, Judith Sargent Murray, and James Forten part of a cast of characters that has traditionally been limited to white, male elites such as James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Marshall. Finally, it shows how the "democratic" political party came to supplant the Supreme Court as the nation's preeminent constitutional institution"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "In the more than 200 years since the ratification of the United States Constitution, it has become conventional wisdom that the Supreme Court has the last word on the meaning of that document. At the same time, the American people widely take for granted that the Constitution is a charter of democracy, liberty, and equality. Those who wrote and adopted the Constitution, however, actually took a dim view of democracy, and their notions of liberty and equality embraced overt racial and gender discrimination. Moreover, few of them anticipated that their new Supreme Court would assume the role of final arbiter of the Constitution's meaning. They did believe that the courts were essential to the preservation of law and justice, as against the lawless whims of popular majorities. But they doubted that the courts could preserve or give meaning to the Constitution independent of other political institutions"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a The new constitution -- The federalist constitution and the limits of constitutional dissent -- The democracy versus the law: the role of the federal judiciary, 1789-1815 -- The paradoxes of Jeffersonian constitutionalism -- The White democracy -- The Marshall court, the Indian nations, and the democratic ascendancy -- Conclusion: The constitutional triumph and failure of the democratic party. 650 0 $a Constitutional history $z United States $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Constitutional history $z United States $y 19th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1789-1815. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1815-1861. 648 7 $a 1700-1899 $2 fast 700 1 $a Cornell, Saul, $e author. 830 0 $a New histories of American law 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317024804.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905044053.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=01A4746A9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search