Suchergebnisse

English origins of American constitutionalism -- Colonial origins of American constitutionalism -- The American revolution -- Establishing new state and federal constitutions -- Constitutional issues in the early republic -- Judicial review, nationalism, and state sovereignty -- Jacksonian democracy and state rights -- Slavery and the constitution -- The constitution and the civil war -- Reconstruction and the constitution -- The industrial state, laissez-faire constitutionalism, and state rights -- The progressive era -- Conservative constitutionalism in the 1920s -- The New Deal and the constitution -- Liberal constitutionalism foundations -- Liberal constitutionalism and equality -- Curbing presidential power -- The revival of constitutional conservatism -- The Supreme Court and conservative constitutionalism civil liberties -- The erosion of constitutional comity -- The conservative court, the constitution, and judicial supremacy -- Presidentialism and the security state -- Constitution war

Intro -- Preserving the Constitution -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Politics, the Constitution, and Reconstruction -- Chapter 1: Preserving the Constitution: The Conservative Basis of Radical Reconstruction -- Chapter 2: The Rout of Radicalism: Republicans and the Elections of 1867 -- Chapter 3: A New Look at the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson -- Part II: Parties and Factions in Civil War-Era Politics -- Chapter 4: The Party, Going Strong: Congress and Elections in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 5: Factionalism and Representation: Some Insight from the Nineteenth-Century United States -- Part III: Politics, the Constitution, and the Retreat from Reconstruction -- Chapter 6: The Politics of Reconstruction -- Chapter 7: Salmon P. Chase and Constitutional Politics -- Chapter 8: The Problem of Constitutionalism and Constitutional Liberty in the Reconstruction South -- Chapter 9: Reform Republicans and the Retreat from Reconstruction -- Chapter 10: Southern Democrats in the Crisis of 1876-77: A Reconsideration of Reunion and Reaction -- Appendix 1: Electoral Count Roll Calls -- Appendix II: Electoral Roll Calls Utilized for Scale Analysis -- Notes -- Index.

Historians of mid-nineteenth-century American politics all know it to be an era when intraparty factional rivalry was almost as bitter as the struggle between parties. Recent studies, such as Joel Silbey's A Respectable Minority (1977) and Michael Perman's The Road to Reaction (1984), concentrate on disagreements between "legitimists" and "purists" in both parties. My own A Compromise of Principle (Benedict, 1975) stressed factionalism among Republicans in the 1860s, while the first chapter of Robert D. Marcus's study of political structure in the Gilded Age, Grand Old Party (1971), is entitled "Faction."