All politics is local : family, friends, and provincial interests in the creation of the Constitution by Collier, Christopher, 1930- instant download
xi, 224 pages : 24 cm, \"All Politics Is Local closely analyzes exactly what Connecticut constituents expected their representatives to achieve in Philadelphia and suggests that other states' citizens also demanded their own special returns. Collier avoids popular theory in his convincing argument that any serious modern effort to understand the Constitution as conceived by its framers must pay close attention to the state-specific needs and desires of the era.\" \"Challenging all previous interpretations, Collier demonstrates that Connecticut's forty antifederalist representatives were motivated not by economic, geographic, intellectual, or ideological factors, but by family and militia connections, local politics, and other considerations that had nothing to do with the Constitution. Finding no overarching truth, no common ideological thread binding the antifederalists together, Collier calls for the same state-centered micro-study for the other twelve founding states. To do less leaves historical and contemporary interpretations of the U.S. Constitution not simply blurred around the edges but incomplete at the core as well.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index, Geography, politics, and society -- The economic and political context -- National objectives, local concerns at the constitutional convention: Part 1. Protecting state governments -- National objectives, local concerns at the consitutional convention: Part 2. Protecting the local economy -- Ratification in Connecticut -- Constitutional crosswinds -- Those who voted no
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