The Correspondence and Public Papers, 1763-1826
Author | : John Jay |
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Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : John Jay |
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Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : John Jay |
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Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : John Jay |
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Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : John Jay |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Mary A. M. Marks |
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Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : John Jay |
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Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Roger G. Kennedy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2003-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198034989 |
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger G. Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of the gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests (such as the powerful land companies that speculated in new territories and the British textile interests) that beat down slavery's many opponents in the South itself (Native Americans, African Americans, Appalachian farmers, and conscientious opponents of slavery). He describes how slaveholders' cash crops--first tobacco, then cotton--sickened the soil and how the planters moved from one desolated tract to the next. Soon the dominant culture of the entire region--from Maryland to Florida, from Carolina to Texas--was that of owners and slaves producing staple crops for international markets. The earth itself was impoverished, in many places beyond redemption. None of this, Kennedy argues, was inevitable. He focuses on the character, ideas, and ambitions of Thomas Jefferson to show how he and other Southerners struggled with the moral dilemmas presented by the presence of Indian farmers on land they coveted, by the enslavement of their workforce, by the betrayal of their stated hopes, and by the manifest damage being done to the earth itself. Jefferson emerges as a tragic figure in a tragic period. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2003.
Author | : Edward A. Purcell |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2007-12-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300122039 |
In this lively historical examination of American federalism, a leading scholar in the field refutes the widely accepted notion that the founding fathers carefully crafted a constitutional balance of power between the states and the federal government. Edward A. Purcell Jr. bases his argument on close analysis of the Constitution’s original structure and the ways that structure both induced and accommodated changes over the centuries. There was no clear agreement among the founding fathers regarding the "true" nature of American federalism, Purcell contends, nor was there a consensus on "correct" lines dividing state and national authority. Furthermore, even had there been some true "original" understanding, the elastic and dynamic nature of the constitutional structure would have made it impossible for subsequent generations to maintain any "original" or permanent balance. The author traces the evolution of federalism through the centuries, focusing particularly on shifting interpretations founded on political interests. He concludes with insights into current issues of federal power and a discussion of the grounds on which legitimate decisions about federal and state power should rest.
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Total Pages | : 1286 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : United States. Department of Justice. Library |
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Total Pages | : 1202 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Law |
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