The sacred fire of liberty : James Madison and the founding of the federal republic /
James Madison was the finest democratic theorist that the United States has ever produced. His was the pivotal philosophical role in framing the Constitution and establishing the principles on which a wholly new form of government was to be based. Yet this widely informed and profoundly original thi...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- The Madisonian Madison: An Introduction
- Ch. 1. James Madison and the Nationalists, 1780-1783
- Ch. 2. The Crisis of Confederation Government, 1783-1787
- Ch. 3. The Crisis of Republican Convictions
- Ch. 4. The Virginia Plan
- Ch. 5. To Perpetuate the Union
- Ch. 6. To Redeem the Republican Name
- Ch. 7. "The Practicable Sphere of a Republic": Madison, The Federalist, and the Republican Interpretation of the Constitution
- Ch. 8. The Virginia Ratifying Convention
- Ch. 9. Spanning the Abyss: Madison, the Bill of Rights, and the Inauguration of the Federal Republic
- Ch. 10. The Great Divergence
- Ch. 11. Opposition Leader
- Ch. 12. Retrospect and Prospect
- Appendix: The Personalities of "Publius."
