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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Beyond Madisonian Federalism
- 1 Legitimacy and Meaning: The Significance of Public Debate to the Adoption of the Constitution
- 2 The Elusive Meaning of the Debate over Ratification
- 3 European States, American Contexts
- 4 The Ideological Response to State Expansion
- 5 An Impotent Congress
- 6 Independence, Commerce, and Military Strength
- 7 A Government of Force
- 8 Government by Consent
- 9 The Federalists and the Uses of Military Powers
- 10 Congressional Insolvency
- 11 Unlimited Taxation, Public Credit, and the Strength of Government
- 12 The Costs of Government
- 13 A Government for Free
- 14 The Federalists and the Uses of Fiscal Powers
- Conclusion: The Constitution, the Federalists, and the American State
- Index
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(p.ix) Acknowledgments
- Source:
- A Revolution in Favor of Government
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Beyond Madisonian Federalism
- 1 Legitimacy and Meaning: The Significance of Public Debate to the Adoption of the Constitution
- 2 The Elusive Meaning of the Debate over Ratification
- 3 European States, American Contexts
- 4 The Ideological Response to State Expansion
- 5 An Impotent Congress
- 6 Independence, Commerce, and Military Strength
- 7 A Government of Force
- 8 Government by Consent
- 9 The Federalists and the Uses of Military Powers
- 10 Congressional Insolvency
- 11 Unlimited Taxation, Public Credit, and the Strength of Government
- 12 The Costs of Government
- 13 A Government for Free
- 14 The Federalists and the Uses of Fiscal Powers
- Conclusion: The Constitution, the Federalists, and the American State
- Index