The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders' Constitution, 1780s-1830s

by Saul T. Cornell and Gerald Leonard

Book Overview

The Partisan Republic is the first book to unite a top down and bottom up account of constitutional change in the Founding era. The book focuses on the decline of the Founding generation's elitist vision of the Constitution and the rise of a more 'democratic' vision premised on the exclusion of women and non-whites. It incorporates recent scholarship on topics ranging from judicial review to popular constitutionalism to place judicial initiatives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110766389X
• ISBN13: 9781107663893
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 8.9"