Forging the American Nation, 1787-1791: James Madison and the Federalist Revolution
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 America's First Constitution: State Over Nation -- 2 The Road to Philadelphia: Nationalists in Search of Energy and Supremacy -- 3 The Constitutional Convention: Nation Over State Within a Federal Framework -- Federalizing the National Legislature -- Federalizing the Choice of a National Executive -- Senate Advice and Consent -- 4 Delimiting the Scope of National Authority -- Enumerating Congressional Powers -- Vetoing the National Legislative Veto -- Constitutional Flexibility -- 5 Three Dissenting Fathers: The First Salvo in the Antifederalist Campaign -- 6 The Antifederalist Drive to Reinstitute State Over Nation -- Stage 1: The Constitution Faulted for Lack of a Bill of Rights -- Stage 2: The Federalist Response -- Stage 3: The Antifederalist Rejoinder to the Wilsonian Thesis -- The Absence of an Express Clause Limiting Congress to the Powers Enumerated -- The Enumeration of Certain Rights in the Constitution -- Freedom of the Press -- The Treaty Power -- The Necessary and Proper Clause Combined with the Supremacy Clause -- 7 Three Ratification Contests: The Fate of the Union in the Balance -- Massachusetts: "The Conciliatory Resolutions that Saved the Constitution."1 -- Virginia: "The Battle Royal." Where Lies Dominion? -- New York: "Convinced by Circumstances." Antifederalists Come Face to Face with Reality -- 8 Madison and the Threat of a Second Constitutional Convention -- 9 The Bill of Rights in Congress: Madison's Race Against Time -- 10 The Tenth Amendment: Nation Over State Preserved -- 11 Postscript: Federalism Tested: Madison v. Marshall and the Antifederalist Revival -- Madison's Embrace of Antifederalist Ideology -- The Tenability of Madison's Legal Theses -- The Creation of the Democratic-Republican Party