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Vindicating the Commercial Republic : the Federalist on Union, Enterprise, and War

Author: Anthony A Peacock
Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018] ©2018
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"Contrary to most academic commentary on The Federalist, this book contends that the most significant teachings of the work did not have to do with the institutions of government so much as with the non-institutional features of American constitutionalism, specifically its advocacy for greater union, the development of an unparalleled culture of enterprise, and provision for war. Key to understanding why these  Read more...
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Peacock, Anthony A. (Anthony Arthur), 1959-
Vindicating the Commercial Republic.
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
(OCoLC)1023597641
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Anthony A Peacock
ISBN: 9781498553483 1498553486
OCLC Number: 1030892324
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Contents: Cover; Vindicatingthe Commercial Republic; Vindicating the Commercial Republic: The Federalist on Union, Enterprise, and War; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Need to Vindicate the American; Neglect of The Federalist's Noninstitutional Teaching; The Federalist's Heterodoxy: Commercial Republics are Spirited and Warlike; Thucydides and The Federalist; A New Understanding of American Constitutionalism; Notes; Chapter 1; The Foundations in Principle of The Federalist's Constitutionalism; Natural Rights, Locke, and the Constitution as a Moral Necessity. The Duty to Abandon the Articles of ConfederationConstitutional Reasoning and Public Opinion; Commerce and the Spirit of the Laws; Notes; Chapter 2; Natural Rights and a New Commercial Republican Theory; Natural Rights and American Culture; National Greatness and the Higher Toning of American Character; Commercial Reform as Moral Reform; Commercial Republicanism and the Dynamism of American Enterprise; Notes; Chapter 3; The Spirited Nature of Commercial Republics; Commerce, Enterprise, and American Greatness; Commerce, Union, and American Foreign Policy. Commerce, War, and the New RepublicanismNotes; Chapter 4; Taming the Commercial Republic; The Radical Republican Revisionism of Federalists 6-8; "Industrious Citizens" Versus "A Nation of Soldiers"; Militias, Standing Armies, and The Federalist's Grand Strategy; The Turn in The Federalist's Commercial Republican Theory; Notes; Chapter 5; Thucydides and The Federalist; Thucydides' History and The Federalist; Thucydides' Four Lessons for The Federalist; Ancient and Modern Liberalism; Notes; Chapter 6; The Virtue of Enterprise; Classical Virtue Eclipsed, the Virtue of Enterprise Embraced. The Meaning of Federalist 10Revisiting the Lessons from Thucydides; Notes; Chapter 7; Federalists 11-14 and the Spirit of Enterprise; America's Commercial Dynamism and The Federalist's Nascent Foreign Policy; Federalists 11 and 12 on the Thucydidean Trinity; Integrating Culture and Moderating Militancy; Thucydides' Third Lesson and the Modern Market; Notes; Chapter 8; Enterprise and the High Politics of American Constitutionalism; Limited Government and the High Objects of American Constitutionalism; The Ancient Models, War, and Weak Federations; Notes; Chapter 9. War and the Impossibility of an Insularity DoctrineUnlimited Power for Limited Objects; Why a Standing Army Will Not Threaten the United States; National Security as a Moral Imperative; A National Free Market as a Moral and Military Imperative; A New American Nationalism; Notes; Chapter 10; Constitutional Powers and The Federalist's High-Toned Politics; Representation and the Exercise of Constitutional Powers; Constitutional Powers and the Life of the Mind; The Federalist and Locke's Doctrine of Property; Notes; Commercial Dynamism and the Impossibility of An Insularity Doctrine.
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