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David Brian Robertson explains how the U.S. C***titution 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 C***titutional 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 Abbreviati*** xix

1　Politics and the C***titution

　How Historians and Social Scientists Have Approached the

C***titution

　A Political Approach to Understanding the C***titution’s

Design

　The Politics the C***titution 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 C***titutional 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 C***titutional Convention

　The Imprecision of Republican Ideals

　Politics and C***titutional Design

　Madison’s Coalition

　Madison’s Opponents

　Roger Sherman’s Coun***genda

　The History of the Convention

　The Politics of C***titution Making

5　Who Governs? C***tituting Policy Agency

　Policy Agency and the C***titutional Convention

　Opposition to the Virginia Plan

　A Coun***genda Emerges

　Madison’s Defeat on the Senate

　War of Attrition over Policy Agency

　The C***titution, Policy Agency, and Political Strategy

6　What Can Be Governed? C***tituting 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 C***titution, Policy Authority, and Political Strategy

7　How Is the Nation Governed? C***tituting the Policy Process

　The Dilemma of Republican Policy Making

　Building the House of Representatives

　The Rise of the Senate

　The Coun***ttack against the Senate

　The Rise of Presidential Independence

　The Rise of the Courts

　Amending the C***titution

　The C***titution, the Policy Process, and Political Strategy

8　Our Inheritance: The C***titution and American Politics

　Bringing the C***titution to Life

　Using the C***titution: Enduring Features

　The C***titution, 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.

C***titution 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 C***titutional

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

***irati*** 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 C***titution, in turn, helped create a politics unlike that

in any other nation.

　　? Emphasizes that the C***titution was the byproduct of

compromises between conflicting visi*** of American development ?

Provides both a very readable and an ***ytical narrative of the

C***titutional Convention ? The first book to ***yze the American

C***titutional Convention as a fundamentally political process

driven by political interests

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David Brian Robertson explains how the U.S. C***titution 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 C***titutional 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.