Conceptual Change and the Constitution

232 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In this volume distinguished historians and political scientists examine political discourse during that short span of years from the Revolution through ratification, a period of profound political and conceptual change. The concepts of "sovereignty," "representation," "liberty," "virtue," "republic," "democracy"—even "constitution" itself—were virtually recoined. Others, like "federalism," were new inventions. Out of the vehement political arguments and debates of the period came not only a new Constitution but a new political vocabulary—a political idiom that was distinctly recognizably American.

• Reihe: University Press Of Kansas
• ISBN: 9780700603695
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.1988
• Größe: 230 x 155 mm
• Verlag: University Press of Kansas
• Herausgegeben von: Terence Ball, J. G. A. Pocock, Pocock J. G. a.