Vindicating the Commercial Republic : The Federalist on Union, Enterprise, and War /: The Federalist on Union, Enterprise, and War. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anthony A. Peacock.
• Authors: Peacock, Anthony A (Anthony Arthur), 1959-
• Contents: Cover; Vindicatingthe Commercial Republic; Vindicating the Commercial Republic: The Federalist on Union, Enterprise, and War; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Need to Vindicate the American; Neglect of The Federalist's Noninstitutional Teaching; The Federalist's Heterodoxy: Commercial Republics are Spirited and Warlike; Thucydides and The Federalist; A New Understanding of American Constitutionalism; Notes; Chapter 1; The Foundations in Principle of The Federalist's Constitutionalism; Natural Rights, Locke, and the Constitution as a Moral Necessity The Duty to Abandon the Articles of ConfederationConstitutional Reasoning and Public Opinion; Commerce and the Spirit of the Laws; Notes; Chapter 2; Natural Rights and a New Commercial Republican Theory; Natural Rights and American Culture; National Greatness and the Higher Toning of American Character; Commercial Reform as Moral Reform; Commercial Republicanism and the Dynamism of American Enterprise; Notes; Chapter 3; The Spirited Nature of Commercial Republics; Commerce, Enterprise, and American Greatness; Commerce, Union, and American Foreign Policy Commerce, War, and the New RepublicanismNotes; Chapter 4; Taming the Commercial Republic; The Radical Republican Revisionism of Federalists 6-8; "Industrious Citizens" Versus "A Nation of Soldiers"; Militias, Standing Armies, and The Federalist's Grand Strategy; The Turn in The Federalist's Commercial Republican Theory; Notes; Chapter 5; Thucydides and The Federalist; Thucydides' History and The Federalist; Thucydides' Four Lessons for The Federalist; Ancient and Modern Liberalism; Notes; Chapter 6; The Virtue of Enterprise; Classical Virtue Eclipsed, the Virtue of Enterprise Embraced The Meaning of Federalist 10Revisiting the Lessons from Thucydides; Notes; Chapter 7; Federalists 11-14 and the Spirit of Enterprise; America's Commercial Dynamism and The Federalist's Nascent Foreign Policy; Federalists 11 and 12 on the Thucydidean Trinity; Integrating Culture and Moderating Militancy; Thucydides' Third Lesson and the Modern Market; Notes; Chapter 8; Enterprise and the High Politics of American Constitutionalism; Limited Government and the High Objects of American Constitutionalism; The Ancient Models, War, and Weak Federations; Notes; Chapter 9 War and the Impossibility of an Insularity DoctrineUnlimited Power for Limited Objects; Why a Standing Army Will Not Threaten the United States; National Security as a Moral Imperative; A National Free Market as a Moral and Military Imperative; A New American Nationalism; Notes; Chapter 10; Constitutional Powers and The Federalist's High-Toned Politics; Representation and the Exercise of Constitutional Powers; Constitutional Powers and the Life of the Mind; The Federalist and Locke's Doctrine of Property; Notes; Commercial Dynamism and the Impossibility of An Insularity Doctrine
• Publisher Details: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 320.473; Political Science: General; Republicanism -- United States; Public interest -- United States; Constitutional law -- United States; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; History: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); History: United States / General; United States -- Politics and government; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498553483; 1498553486
• Related ISBNs: 9781498553476
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 10, 2018).
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