Author: Everett Pepperrell WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Daniel Webster
Author: Everett Pepperrell WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Daniel Webster, the Expounder of the Constitution
Author: Everett Pepperrell WheelerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781534956704
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Daniel Webster, the expounder of the Constitution by Everett Pepperrell Wheeler. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1905 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Daniel Webster
Author: Everett Pepperrell WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Daniel Webster and Jacksonian Democracy
Author: Sydney NathansPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421430932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Originally published in 1973. Professor Nathans illuminates the changes wrought by Jacksonian democracy on the career of Daniel Webster, a major political figure, and on the destiny of a major political party, the Whigs. Daniel Webster was a creative anachronism in the Jacksonian era. His career illustrates the fate of a generation of American politicians, reared to rule in a traditional world of defined social classes where gentlemen led and the masses followed. With extensive research into primary sources, Nathans interprets Webster as a leader in the older political tradition, hostile to permanent organized political parties and fearful of social strife that party conflict seemed to promote. He focuses on Webster's response to the rise of entrenchment of voter-oriented partisan politics. He analyzes Webster's struggle to survive, comprehend, and finally manipulate the new politics during his early opposition to Jackson; his roles in the Bank War and the nullification crisis; and the contest for leadership within the Whig Party from 1828 to 1844. Webster and the Whigs resisted and then belatedly attempted to answer the demands of the new egalitarian mass politics. When Webster failed as an apologist for government by the elite, he became a rhapsodist of American commercial enterprise. Seeking a new power base, he adapted his public style to the standards of simplicity and humility that the voters seemed to reward. Nathans shows, however, that Webster developed a realistic vision of the common bonds of Jacksonian society—of the basis for community—that would warrant anew the trust needed for the kind of leadership he offered. The meaning of Webster's career lies in these attempts to bridge the old and new politics, but his attempt was doomed to ironic and revealing failure. Nathans studies Webster's impact on the Whig party, showing that his influence was strong enough to thwart the ambitions of his rivals Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun but not strong enough to achieve his own aspirations. Nathans argues that Webster, through his efforts to increase his authority within the party, merely revealed his true weakness as a sectional leader. His successful blocking of Clay and Calhoun brought about a deadlock that significantly hastened the transfer of power to men more committed to strong party organization and more talented at voter manipulation. Webster's dilemma was the crisis of an entire political generation reared for a traditional world and forced to function in a modern one.
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution
Author: Joseph FishkinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067498062X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
A bold call to reclaim an American tradition that argues the Constitution imposes a duty on government to fight oligarchy and ensure broadly shared wealth. Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the Òrepublican form of governmentÓ the Constitution requires. Today, courts enforce the Constitution as if it has almost nothing to say about this threat. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this revolutionary retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political and constitutional thought. Fishkin and Forbath demonstrate that reformers, legislators, and even judges working in this Òdemocracy of opportunityÓ tradition understood that the Constitution imposes a duty on legislatures to thwart oligarchy and promote a broad distribution of wealth and political power. These ideas led Jacksonians to fight special economic privileges for the few, Populists to try to break up monopoly power, and Progressives to fight for the constitutional right to form a union. During Reconstruction, Radical Republicans argued in this tradition that racial equality required breaking up the oligarchy of slave power and distributing wealth and opportunity to former slaves and their descendants. President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Dealers built their politics around this tradition, winning the fight against the Òeconomic royalistsÓ and Òindustrial despots.Ó But today, as we enter a new Gilded Age, this tradition in progressive American economic and political thought lies dormant. The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution begins the work of recovering it and exploring its profound implications for our deeply unequal society and badly damaged democracy.
The Papers of Daniel Webster
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Constitutional Law of the United States as Moulded by Daniel Webster
Author: Everett Pepperrell WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Papers of Daniel Webster: The Federal practice pt.1-2
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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