The Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American Experiment |
 | Author: Vincent Ostrom
Publisher: Lexington Books
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Pages: 316
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0739121200
Dewey Decimal Number: 321.8
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The Political Theory of a Compound Republic presents the essential logic of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton's design of limited, distributed, constitutional authority proposed inThe Federalist. Two revised and expanded ensuing chapters show how the idea of constitutional choice has been employed since the adoption of the 1789 Constitution of the United States. A new concluding chapter questions commonly accepted beliefs about sovereign nation-states and considers governance from the perspective of twenty-first century _citizen-sovereigns._
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The political theory of a compound republic May 1, 2008
M. Fotos (Hartford, CT)
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The Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American Experiment
Vincent Ostrom looks at the US constitution as it was imagined by the framers. I assign this book in my political institutions course because it enables students to appreciate the subtelty and sophistication of thought of the framers and the errors of 20th century constitutional interpretation. The new chapters help the reader better navigate the original 1971 text and catch up with the venerable author's on-going deliberations on constitutional theory, including a brief but notable aside on the EU as an example of innovative federalism.
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