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David Brian Robertson explains how the U.S. Constitution emerged from an intense battle between a bold vision for the nation's political future and the tenacious defense of its political present. Given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to alter America's destiny, James Madison laid before the Constitutional Convention a plan for a strong centralized government that could battle for America's long-term interests. But delegates from vulnerable states resisted this plan, seeking instead to maintain state control over most of American life while adding a few more specific powers to the existing government.

List of Tables and Figures page ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

List of Abbreviations xix

1　Politics and the Constitution

　How Historians and Social Scientists Have Approached the

Constitution

　A Political Approach to Understanding the Constitution’s

Design

　The Politics the Constitution Made

2　The Policy Crisis of the 1780s

　The Independent American States

　The States’ Diverse and Conflicting Interests

　The Politics of the Articles of Confederation

　Finance, Trade, and the Political Failure of the

Confederation

　From Crisis to Cure

3　James Madison’s Plan for the Constitutional Convention

　Growing Support for National Political Reform

　Momentum for Market-Driven Economic Development

　The Road to Philadelphia

　James Madison as Policy Strategist

　Madison’s Diagnosis

　Madison’s Cure

　The Virginia Plan

　Madison’s Challenge

4　The Political Landscape of the Constitutional Convention

　The Imprecision of Republican Ideals

　Politics and Constitutional Design

　Madison’s Coalition

　Madison’s Opponents

　Roger Sherman’s Counteragenda

　The History of the Convention

　The Politics of Constitution Making

5　Who Governs? Constituting Policy Agency

　Policy Agency and the Constitutional Convention

　Opposition to the Virginia Plan

　A Counteragenda Emerges

　Madison’s Defeat on the Senate

　War of Attrition over Policy Agency

　The Constitution, Policy Agency, and Political Strategy

6　What Can Be Governed? Constituting Policy Authority

　The Struggle over Power and Sovereignty

　Dividing Sovereignty

　Bargaining on Slavery and Trade

　Protecting State Authority

　Neutralizing Taxes

　Nurturing Markets

　Delegating Authority to Politics

　The Constitution, Policy Authority, and Political Strategy

7　How Is the Nation Governed? Constituting the Policy Process

　The Dilemma of Republican Policy Making

　Building the House of Representatives

　The Rise of the Senate

　The Counterattack against the Senate

　The Rise of Presidential Independence

　The Rise of the Courts

　Amending the Constitution

　The Constitution, the Policy Process, and Political Strategy

8　Our Inheritance: The Constitution and American Politics

　Bringing the Constitution to Life

　Using the Constitution: Enduring Features

　The Constitution, Interest Groups, and Political Parties

　The Distinctive Politics of American Industrialization

　Our Challenge

Index

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　　In this ambitious study, Robertson explains how the U.S.

Constitution emerged from an intense battle between a bold vision

for the nation's political future and the tenacious defense of its

political present. Given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to alter

America's destiny, James Madison laid before the Constitutional

Convention a plan for a strong centralized government that could

battle for America's long-term interests. But delegates from

vulnerable states resisted this plan, seeking instead to maintain

state control over most of American life while adding a few more

specific powers to the existing government. These clashing

aspirations turned the Convention into an unpredictable chain of

events. Step-by-step, the delegates' compromises built national

powers in a way no one had anticipated, and produced a government

more complex and hard to use than any of them originally intended.

Their Constitution, in turn, helped create a politics unlike that

in any other nation.

　　? Emphasizes that the Constitution was the byproduct of

compromises between conflicting visions of American development ?

Provides both a very readable and an analytical narrative of the

Constitutional Convention ? The first book to analyze the American

Constitutional Convention as a fundamentally political process

driven by political interests

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David Brian Robertson explains how the U.S. Constitution emerged from an intense battle between a bold vision for the nation's political future and the tenacious defense of its political present. Given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to alter America's destiny, James Madison laid before the Constitutional Convention a plan for a strong centralized government that could battle for America's long-term interests. But delegates from vulnerable states resisted this plan, seeking instead to maintain state control over most of American life while adding a few more specific powers to the existing government.