Devising Liberty

Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic

By: David Thomas Konig (Editor)

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'You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself'. In urging the ratification of the Constitution, James Madison had identified one of the central problems of the new American republic, the rivalry of power and liberty. The contributors to this book focus on the various constitutional problems that surrounded the need to provide simultaneously a sufficient degree of union and public authority to guarantee defence and order, and a sufficient degree of individual liberty to satisfy the demands and expectations of private citizens who were wary of the arbitrary powers of government.

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Central Government Central Government Policies Political Control & Freedoms Human Rights Civil Rights & Citizenship History Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Regional & National History History of the Americas

Economics Political Economy Early Modern History from 1450 to 1700 General & World History

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Political Economy and the Creation of the Federal Republic	p. 11
The Expanding Union	p. 50
Land and Liberty on the Post-Revolutionary Frontier	p. 81
The Meaning of Freedom for Waterfront Workers	p. 109
The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in the Early Republic	p. 141
Jurisprudence and Social Policy in the New Republic	p. 178
From the Bonds of Empire to the Bonds of Matrimony	p. 217
The Second Great Awakening and the Market Revolution	p. 243
The Problem of Slavery in Southern Political Discourse	p. 265
Abbreviations	p. 301
Notes	p. 303
Index	p. 373
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