Author: Henry ClayPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813100616
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Papers of Henry Clay
Author: Henry ClayPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813100616
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox
Author: Richard J. EllisPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700629459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Usually remembered for its slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too,” the election of 1840 is also the first presidential election of which it might be truly said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Tackling a contest best known for log cabins, cider barrels, and catchy songs, this timely volume reveals that the election of 1840 might be better understood as a case study of how profoundly the economy shapes the presidential vote. Richard J. Ellis, a veteran scholar of presidential politics, suggests that the election pitting the Democratic incumbent Martin Van Buren against Whig William Henry Harrison should also be remembered as the first presidential election in which a major political party selected—rather than merely anointed—its nominee at a national nominating convention. In this analysis, the convention’s selection, as well as Henry Clay’s post-convention words and deeds, emerge as crucial factors in the shaping of the nineteenth-century partisan nation. Exploring the puzzle of why the Whig Party’s political titan Henry Clay lost out to a relative political also-ran, Ellis teases out the role the fluctuating economy and growing antislavery sentiment played in the party’s fateful decision to nominate the Harrison-Tyler ticket. His work dismantles the caricature of the 1840 campaign (a.k.a. the “carnival campaign”) as all froth and no substance, instead giving due seriousness to the deeply held moral commitments, as well as anxieties about the political system, that informed the campaign. In Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox, the campaign of 1840 can finally be seen clearly for what it was: a contest of two profoundly different visions of policy and governance, including fundamental, still-pressing questions about the place of the presidency and Congress in the US political system.
Aggressive Nationalism
Author: Richard E. EllisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195323564
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) has long been recognized to be one of the most significant decisions ever handed down by the United States Supreme Court. Indeed, many scholars have argued it is the greatest opinion handed down by the greatest Chief Justice, in which he declared the act creating the Second Bank of the United States constitutional and Maryland's attempt to tax it unconstitutional. Although it is now recognized as the foundational statement for a strong and active federal government, the immediate impact of the ruling was short-lived and widely criticized.Placing the decision and the public reaction to it in their proper historical context, Richard E. Ellis finds that Maryland, though unopposed to the Bank, helped to bring the case before the Court and a sympathetic Chief Justice, who worked behind the scenes to save the embattled institution. Almost all treatments of the case consider it solely from Marshall's perspective, yet a careful examination reveals other, even more important issues that the Chief Justice chose to ignore. Ellis demonstrates that the points which mattered most to the States were not treated by the Court's decision: the private, profit-making nature of the Second Bank, its right to establish branches wherever it wanted with immunity from state taxation, and the right of the States to tax the Bank simply for revenue purposes. Addressing these issues would have undercut Marshall's nationalist view of the Constitution, and his unwillingness to adequately deal with them produced immediate, widespread, and varied dissatisfaction among the States. Ellis argues that Marshall's "aggressive nationalism" was ultimately counter-productive: his overreaching led to Jackson's democratic rejection of the decision and failed to reconcile states' rights to the effective operation of the institutions of federal governance.Elegantly written, full of new information, and the first in-depth examination of McCulloch v. Maryland, Aggressive Nationalism offers an incisive, fresh interpretation of this familiar decision central to understanding the shifting politics of the early republic as well as the development of federal-state relations, a source of constant division in American politics, past and present.
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1998: Testimony of members of Congress and other interested individuals and organizations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Historical Documentary Editions
Author: New American Supplement to the New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica ... Illustrated with Hundreds of Portraits and Other Engravings
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Annotation
Author: Humanities
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Humanistic
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Humanities
Author: National Endowment for the HumanitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica (ninth Edition)
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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