| Conceptual Change and the Constitution Contributor(s): Ball, Terence (Editor), J. G. a., Pocock (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0700603697 ISBN-13: 9780700603695 Publisher: University Press of Kansas OUR PRICE: $27.71 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1998 Annotation: This volume calls attention to the changing or multiple meaning of key concepts and terms in Revolutionary-era political thought. As against the tendency to stress the relative homogeneity o the ideas that colaesced in the late 1780s, this collection creates a set of case studies that illuminate the range of issues around which new and disputed positions formed. Contributors include Terence Ball, Lance Banning, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson, Daniel Walker Howe, Peter S. Onuf, J.G.A. Pocock, Gerald Stourzh, and Garry Wills. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Civil Procedure - Law | Legal History - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 347.302 |
| LCCN: 88000203 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.12" W x 9.06" (0.76 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this volume distinguished historians and political scientists examine political discourse during that short span of years from the Revolution through ratification, a period of profound political and conceptual change. The concepts of sovereignty, representation, liberty, virtue, republic, democracy--even constitution itself--were virtually recoined. Others, like federalism, were new inventions. Out of the vehement political arguments and debates of the period came not only a new Constitution but a new political vocabulary--a political idiom that was distinctly recognizably American. |