Launching the "Extended Republic"

by Hoffman, Ronald; Albert, Peter J.

• ISBN13: 9780813916248
• ISBN10: 0813916240
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

The essays in this volume explore some of the potentially divisive realities that characterized the Federalist Era. Nine distinguished authors address themes that include the ideological assumptions that fueled the political debate, the interrelated chracter of social and political history, the role of the courts as an emerging force in arbitrating and containing conflict, and the expansionist impulses that pushed the new nation's borders westward. Gordon S. Wood introduces the collection with an incisive overview of the bold ambitions and unfulfilled aspirations of the critical first decade of the United States.

Table of Contents

RONALD HOFFMAN
Preface	vii
GORDON S. WOOD
Launching the "Extended Republic": The Federalist Era	1	(24)
MAEVA MARCUS
Judicial Review in the Early Republic	25	(29)
THOMAS P. SLAUGHTER
"The King of Crimes": Early American Treason Law, 1787-1860	54	(82)
JAMES H. KETTNER
Perosns or Property? The Pleasants Slaves in the Virginia Courts, 1792-1799	136	(20)
ANDREW R. L. CAYTON
"When Shall We Cease to Have Judases?" The Blount Conspiracy and the Limits of the "Extended Republic"	156	(34)
BERNARD W. SHEEHAN
The Indian Problem in the Northwest: From Conquest to Philanthropy	190	(33)
JOHN LAURITZ LARSON
"Wisdom Enought to Improve Them": Government, Liberty, and Inland Waterways in the Rising American Empire	223	(26)
GARY J. KORNBLITH
Artisan Federalism: New England Mechanics and the Political Economy of the 1790s	249	(24)
JOHN L. BROOKE
Ancient Lodges and Self-Created Societies: Voluntary Association and the Public Sphere in the Early Republic	273	(108)
Contributors	381	(4)
Index	385