Political Philosophy and Rhetoric: A Study of the Origins of American Party Politics

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Cambridge University Press, 1977 M04 28 - 237 páginas
This book analyses the origins of modern party politics in America. Dr Zvesper argues that the partisan conflict between Federalists and Republicans in the 1790s was not merely an interesting historical sequel to the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution, but was a confrontation of two of the fundamental alternatives of modern political philosophy. Consideration of this fact, along with evidence of the class structure of American society, is then used to explain why the Republican party was the natural superior in the dispute with Federalism, and why Republican philosophy and rhetoric have been so essential to American politics ever since.
 

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Party government and party politics
3
The Federalist science of politics
19
The confidence of unchallenged Federalism
39
The Federalist practice of politics and
65
The idealism of the Republican challenge
87
Principles and rhetoric in the critical elections
132
Party politics and party government
181
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