The Essential Antifederalist,9780742521872

The Essential Antifederalist

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780742521872
ISBN10: 0742521877
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-20
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This edited collection of readings from Antifederalist thought was first published in 1985. Here presented with a completely revised and updated interpretive essay from the editors and expanded to cover the period of the founding from 1776-91, this book is the most complete one-volume collection of its kind.

Author Biography

William B. Allen is professor of political science at Michigan State University. A Ph. D. from Claremont Graduate School, Allen is author of The Federalist Papers: A Commentary, Let the Advice Be Good: A defense of Madison's Democratic Nationalism, and editor of All Cloudless Glory: A Biography of George Washington by Harrison Clark. Gordon Lloyd is the John M. Olin Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. A Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School, Lloyd is the co-editor ofThe Essential Bill of Rights: Original Arguments and Fundamental Documents, as well as the author of numerous articles on federalism and the founding

Table of Contents

Preface v
Interpretative Essay vii
Timeline xxxii
Origin of Antifederalist Thought
1(74)
Z
5(2)
John Lansing, George Mason, and Luther Martin, 20 June 1787
7(5)
Luther Martin, 27-28 June 1787
12(4)
George Mason, Objections
16(3)
Richard Henry Lee, Letter to Edmund Randolph, 16 October 1787
19(5)
Elbridge Gerry, Objections
24(2)
Cato, Letter III
26(4)
An Old Whig, Essay VII
30(3)
Pennsylvania Minority Report
33(14)
Robert Yates and John Lansing, Reasons of Dissent
47(2)
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Alexander Donald, 7 February 1788
49(1)
Agrippa, Letters XV and XVI
50(10)
Sidney, Essay II
60(3)
A Plebian
63(12)
Antifederalist Views of Federalism
75(70)
Federal Farmer, Letters I and XVII
78(18)
Centinel, Letter I
96(9)
Brutus, Essays I and V
105(17)
Agrippa, Letter IV
122(2)
Maryland Farmer Essay III, Part One
124(3)
Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 4-5 June 1788
127(13)
Virginia Ratifying Convention Amendment Proposals
140(5)
Antifederalist Views of Republicanism
145(88)
Richard Henry Lee, Letter to George Mason, 1 October 1787
148(1)
Federal Farmer, Letters, II, III, IV and XII
149(22)
Old Whig, Essay IV
171(3)
Brutus, Essays II, IV, XI, XII, XV
174(26)
Cato, Letters V and VII
200(5)
John DeWitt, Essay V
205(6)
James Monroe, Observatins on the Constitution
211(8)
Virginia Ratifying Convention, 18 June 1788
219(5)
Melancton Smith, New York Ratifying Convention, 20 June 1788
224(6)
John Lansing, New York Ratifying Convention, 24 June 1788
230(3)
Antifederalist Views of Capitalism and Democracy
233(66)
Centinel, Letters, III, IV, VII, VIII
236(13)
A Georgian
249(2)
Brutus, Essay III
251(6)
Cato, Letter VI
257(3)
Agrippa, Letters VII, IX, XII, XIV
260(14)
Federal Farmer, Letters VII, IX
274(7)
Maryland Farmer, Essay III, Part II; and Essay VII, Part I
281(7)
Mercy Otis Warren, The American Revolution
288(11)
Appendix 299(30)
I. Virginia Declaration of Rights and Constitution
299(8)
II. Articles of Confederation
307(7)
III. Draft Constitution of 1787
314(15)
Bibliography 329(4)
Index 333

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