Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States

Name: Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States
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ISBN: 9780226121345

ISBN-10: 0226121348

ISBN-13: 9780226121345

Edition: 1980

Authors: William W. Crosskey, William Jeffrey

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When the first two volumes of William Crosskey's monumental study of the Constitution appeared in 1953, Arthur M. Schlesinger called it "perhaps the most fertile commentary on that document since The Federalist papers." It was highly controversial as well. The work was a comprehensive reassessment of the meaning of the Constitution, based on examination of eighteenth-century usages of key political and legal concepts and terms. Crosskey's basic thesis was that the Founding Fathers truly intended a government with plenary, nationwide powers, and not, as in the received views, a limited federalism. This third volume of Politics and the Constitution, which Crosskey began and William Jeffrey…

Book details

List price: $335.00
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1980
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 2025
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.47" tall
Weight: 7.216
Language: English



Introduction



Our Unknown Constitution



The National Power Over Commerce



The Supreme Court's Theory of the Incompleteness of the National Commerce Power, and Its Evil Consequences for the Country



Interstate Commerce versus Commerce Among the Several States



The Eighteenth Century's Usage ofCommerceand Its Synonyms



The Meaning of the Phrase


To Regulate Commerce: Herein of the Evidence in ""the Commercial Writers"" and in John Dickinson's ""Farmer's Letters""



The Meaning of the Ph