The Roots of American Politics
This book examines the ways in which American habits and politics replaced the traditional European republican canon. Before the modern era, European republics relied on procedural complexity in office-filling to arrive at neutral government. They did so with such technical consistency over a long s...
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| description | This book examines the ways in which American habits and politics replaced the traditional European republican canon. Before the modern era, European republics relied on procedural complexity in office-filling to arrive at neutral government. They did so with such technical consistency over a long span of time as to create a republican procedural tradition. That tradition collided with conditions in the Anglo-American world: with entrenched social deference in politics, quasi-representative institutions, and an ascendant doctrine of majorities. American habits would ultimately overwhelm the European republican canon, but not without a fight. This book suggests that arguments over the abandonment of the procedural tradition shook politics in early America, especially at the federal convention, and that it is difficult to understand the convention delegates’ votes concerning the Great Compromise (apportioning the House and Senate) and the presidential selection system without reference to those arguments. The contest between simple majorities and complexity aiming at comity was not resolved neatly in Philadelphia and continued during the first decades of the republic; this book argues that some political institutions to this day bear the stamp of the imperfect arrangements reached at the nation’s founding which among other things was a moment of inflection between older and newer concepts of republican architecture. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars interested in American Political History, Early American History, and Political Science. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1577482025-06-24T05:29:11Z The Roots of American Politics Martin, John Frederick Political History Early American History American Political History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWR Specific wars and campaigns thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWF Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare) thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology This book examines the ways in which American habits and politics replaced the traditional European republican canon. Before the modern era, European republics relied on procedural complexity in office-filling to arrive at neutral government. They did so with such technical consistency over a long span of time as to create a republican procedural tradition. That tradition collided with conditions in the Anglo-American world: with entrenched social deference in politics, quasi-representative institutions, and an ascendant doctrine of majorities. American habits would ultimately overwhelm the European republican canon, but not without a fight. This book suggests that arguments over the abandonment of the procedural tradition shook politics in early America, especially at the federal convention, and that it is difficult to understand the convention delegates’ votes concerning the Great Compromise (apportioning the House and Senate) and the presidential selection system without reference to those arguments. The contest between simple majorities and complexity aiming at comity was not resolved neatly in Philadelphia and continued during the first decades of the republic; this book argues that some political institutions to this day bear the stamp of the imperfect arrangements reached at the nation’s founding which among other things was a moment of inflection between older and newer concepts of republican architecture. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars interested in American Political History, Early American History, and Political Science. 2025-03-25T06:39:22Z 2025-03-25T06:39:22Z 2025-03-24T17:13:44Z 2025 book ONIX_20250324_9781040336526_11 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100313 9781003562610 9781032906522 9781040336564 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/157748 eng Perspectives on Early America open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100313/1/9781040336526.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100313/1/9781040336526.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003562610 10.4324/9781003562610 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781003562610 9781032906522 9781040336564 Routledge 434 Oxford open access |
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