The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty: How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765–1850 PDF
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IVAN JANKOVIC HOW AMEEEEERRRRRRRIIIIIICCCCCCCAAAAAAANNNNNNNSSSSSSS RRRRRRREEEEEEESSSSSSSIIIIIIISSSSSSSTTTTTTTEEEEEEEDDDDDDD MMMMMMMOOOOOOODDDDDDDEEEEEEERRRRRRRNNNNNNN SSSSSSSTTTTTTTAAAAAAATTTTTTTEEEEEEE,,,,, 1111111777777766666665555555–––1111111888888855555550000000 The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty “This book is an inclusive and well-defended libertarian analysis of the political and economic forces at work in America up to the civil-war years.” —Svetozar (Steve) Pejovich, Professor Emeritus, Economics, Texas A&M University, USA “Based on solid historical research and representing a quite novel approach, this book is an original contribution to the immense literature on the subject of American political thought at the Founding and beyond.” —Luigi Marco Bassani, Full Professor, Political Theory, University of Milan, Italy “Tocqueville watched in horror as Europeans everywhere destroyed hundreds of independent social authorities left over from the middle ages in order to build highly centralized bureaucratic states. What Europe needed, he said, was a ‘mod- ern brand’ of the ‘liberty of the Middle Ages.’ This study enables us to see that Americans from 1765 to 1850 were building just that kind of federative polity until it was derailed by the Lincolnian revolution in centralization.” —Donald W. Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Emory University, USA Ivan Jankovic The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765–1850 Ivan Jankovic University of Mary Bismarck, ND, USA ISBN 978-3-030-03732-1 ISBN 978-3-030-03733-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03733-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018960880 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images Plus This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland To the liberals of all parties A cknowledgements I would like to thank friends, colleagues, teachers, and students who contributed to this book by virtue of talking with me, reading and objecting to my writings and criticizing and complementing my ideas over time, especially Walter Block, Laurent Dobuzinskis, Genevieve Fuji-Johnson, David Laycock, Donald Livingston, Michael Sporrer, and Clyde Wilson. I also owe a great gratitude to late Murray N. Rothbard, Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood, Thomas E. Woods, and Luigi Marco Bassani for their numerous writings and speeches about the relationship between the liberal tradition and the American Revolution that served as a starting point for my own research. A special thanks to the Charles Koch Foundation for its financial help in writing this book and to journal Perspectives in Political Science and their publisher Taylor Francis for allowing me to reuse some of the mate- rial previously published with them. The help of Michelle Chen and John Stegner from Palgrave Macmillan in going through the review process and preparing the book was invaluable. Finally, big thank you to Aleksandra Kostic who had to suffer on a daily basis for years through all the meanderings of my work, through numerous false starts that only gradually grew into a coherent idea and plan of a book. Without her no-nonsense approach and her zero toler- ance for half-baked ideas and stretches of logic, this book would be a much worse one. vii c ontents Part I America and Traditional British Liberties 1 The American Revolution as the Last European Peasants’ Rebellion 3 2 Consent, Representation, and Liberty: America as the Last Medieval Society 19 3 Shades of Anarchy: The Concept of Lawful Rebellion in America Introduction 47 Part II On a Collision Course with Modern State 4 Men of Little Faith Facing the Modern State: The Country Party Ideology in Great Britain 77 5 When in the Course of Human Events…—Hobbes, Locke, and the Long Parliament Against America 105 6 The Great Derailment: Philadelphia Putsch of 1787 and the Coming of the American State 131 ix x CoNTENTS Part III States’ Rights Philosophy as a Synthesis and Reconciliation 7 1776 Strikes Back—Anti-federalist Critics of the Constitution 167 8 The Compact Theory of the Union—A Revolution Within a Form 195 9 Free Market in a Small Republic—Economic Doctrines of Jeffersonians and Jacksonians 225 10 The Last Stand: John C. Calhoun 249 11 Conclusion 273 A A bout the uthor Ivan Jankovic was born and raised in Serbia, graduating from University of Belgrade in philosophy. Serbian by birth, Canadian by citizenship, and American by intellectual interests and love of liberty, Jankovic is currently assistant professor of economics at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, and is widely published in specialized journals covering economics, history of economic and politi- cal thought. This is his first book. xi PART I America and Traditional British Liberties
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