The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s–1830s PDF
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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02416-8 — The Partisan Republic Gerald Leonard , Saul Cornell Frontmatter More Information The Partisan Republic ThePartisanRepublicisthefirstbooktouniteatopdownandbottom up account of constitutional change in the Founding era. The book focusesonthedeclineofthe Foundinggeneration’selitistvisionofthe Constitution and the rise of a more “democratic” vision premised on theexclusionofwomenandnon-whites.Itincorporatesrecentscholar- shipontopicsrangingfromjudicialreviewtopopularconstitutionalism toplacejudicialinitiativeslikeMarburyv.Madisoninabroader,socio- legalcontext.Thebookrecognizestheroleofconstitutionaloutsidersas agentsinshapingthe law,makingfiguressuchasthe Whiskey Rebels, Judith Sargent Murray, and James Forten part of a cast of characters that has traditionally been limited to white, male elites such as James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Marshall. Finally, it shows how the “democratic” political party came to supplant the Supreme Courtasthenation’spreeminentconstitutionalinstitution. isProfessorofLawatBostonUniversitySchoolof LawandauthorofTheInventionofPartyPolitics:Federalism,Popular Sovereignty,andConstitutionalDevelopmentinJacksonianIllinois. is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University and author of The Other Founders: Antifederalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828 and A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins ofGunControlinAmerica. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02416-8 — The Partisan Republic Gerald Leonard , Saul Cornell Frontmatter More Information New Historiesof American Law SeriesEditors MichaelGrossberg,IndianaUniversity ChristopherL.Tomlins,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley New Histories of American Law is a series of bold, synthetic, and path-breaking interpretivebooksthatwilladdressthekeytopicsinthefieldofAmericanlegalhistory, writtenbytheleadersofthefield,anddesignedforscholarsandstudentsthroughout universities,colleges,andlawschools. OtherBooksintheSeries: MarkDouglasMcGarvie,LawandReligioninAmericanHistory KunalM.Parker,MakingForeigners:ImmigrationandCitizenshipLawinAmerica, 1600–2000 LauraF.Edwards,ALegalHistoryoftheCivilWarandReconstruction:ANation ofRights ElizabethDale,CriminalJusticeintheUnitedStates,1789–1939 JackP.Greene,TheConstitutionalOriginsoftheAmericanRevolution BarbaraYoungWelke,LawandtheBordersofBelongingintheLongNineteenth CenturyUnitedStates © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02416-8 — The Partisan Republic Gerald Leonard , Saul Cornell Frontmatter More Information The Partisan Republic ’ Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders – Constitution, 1780s 1830s GERALD LEONARD BostonUniversity SAUL CORNELL FordhamUniversity © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02416-8 — The Partisan Republic Gerald Leonard , Saul Cornell Frontmatter More Information UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge28,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107024168 :10.1017/9781139161930 ©GeraldLeonardandSaulCornell2019 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2019 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainbyClaysLtd,ElcografS.p.A. AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. 978-1-107-02416-8Hardback 978-1-107-66389-3Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02416-8 — The Partisan Republic Gerald Leonard , Saul Cornell Frontmatter More Information Gerry Leonard dedicates this book to Abigail, Sarah, and Talia with love and admiration. Saul Cornell dedicates this book to the memory of my mother Estelle Cornell, the memory of my wife’s mother Ollie Selleck, and my wife Susan. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02416-8 — The Partisan Republic Gerald Leonard , Saul Cornell Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02416-8 — The Partisan Republic Gerald Leonard , Saul Cornell Frontmatter More Information Contents Acknowledgments pageix Introduction 1 1 The New Constitution 8 2 The Federalist Constitution and the Limits of Constitutional Dissent 42 3 The Democracy versus the Law: The Roleof the Federal Judiciary, 1789–1815 84 4 The Paradoxes ofJeffersonian Constitutionalism 115 5 The White Democracy 146 6 The Marshall Court, theIndianNations,and the Democratic Ascendancy 178 Conclusion: The Constitutional Triumph and Failure of theDemocraticParty 210 Bibliographical Essay 225 Index 239 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02416-8 — The Partisan Republic Gerald Leonard , Saul Cornell Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02416-8 — The Partisan Republic Gerald Leonard , Saul Cornell Frontmatter More Information Acknowledgments Gerry Leonard wishes to acknowledge gratefully the help of Khiara Bridges,KrisCollins,TomGreen,andAaronKnapp,eachofwhomread sections ofthemanuscriptandofferedveryhelpfulfeedback.Portionsof this book were presented at valuable workshops at the University of Connecticut Schoolof Law and the Boston University School of Law. Saul Cornell would like to thank Paul and Diane Guenther, whose generous funding of a chair in American Constitutional history at Ford- ham provided research support and leave time to work on this project. Faculty workshops at Boston University, the University of Connecticut, and Fordham School of Law provided lively venues to test many of the ideas in this book. Invaluable research support was provided by Stephen Leccese and Sophia Wise. Dan Kahan, Tracy Meares, and former Dean Robert Post welcomed me as a senior visiting research scholar at Yale Law School. Stephen Wilf and Richard Kay also provided congenial reception as a visiting scholar at the University of Connecticut School ofLaw. Finally, we would like to thank the editors of this series, Michael GrossbergandChristopherTomlins,fortheirpatienceandsavvyeditorial guidance. ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org
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