THE CONSTITUTION AND AMERICA'S DESTINY by David Brian Robertson ( 9780521845557 )

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Title:

THE CONSTITUTION AND AMERICA'S DESTINY

By:

David Brian Robertson

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521845556

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9780521845557

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 August, 2005

Pages:

304

Description:

This book explains the politics behind the design of the US Constitution.

Synopsis:

In this ambitious study, Robertson explains how the US Constitution emerged from an intense battle between a bold vision for the nation's political future and the tenacious defense of its political present. Given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to alter America's destiny, James Madison laid before the Constitutional Convention a plan for a strong centralized government that could battle for America's long-term interests. But delegates from vulnerable states resisted this plan, seeking instead to maintain state control over most of American life while adding a few more specific powers to the existing government. These clashing aspirations turned the Convention into an unpredictable chain of events. Step-by-step, the delegates' compromises built national powers in a way no one had anticipated, and produced a government more complex and hard to use than any of them originally intended. Their Constitution, in turn, helped create a politics unlike that in any other nation.

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4 b/w illus. 5 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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