Negotiating the Constitution : : The Earliest Debates over Original Intent /

Negotiating the Constitution : : The Earliest Debates over Original Intent / / Joseph M. Lynch.

No concept sparks more controversy in constitutional debate than "original intent." Offering a legal historian's approach to the subject, this book demonstrates that the framers deliberately obscured one of their more important decisions. Joseph M. Lynch argues that the Constitution w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Lynch, Joseph M.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Constitutional Convention: Virginians and Power
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Politics and Promises of Ratification
  • CHAPTER THREE. Virginia’s Interests: Madison’s Shifting Canons
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Madison and Strict Construction
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Emergence of Opposition
  • CHAPTER SIX. Opposition and Foreign Policy
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Strict Construction: Impracticalities and Trivialities
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Jay’s Treaty and the Withering of Madison’s Authority
  • CHAPTER NINE. Turbulence, Aliens, and Sedition
  • CHAPTER TEN. Sedition and the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Fall of the Federalists
  • Epilogue: Text, Intent, and Practicality
  • Cases Cited
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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