Conceptual Change and the Constitution - Softcover

 
9780700603695: Conceptual Change and the Constitution
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ISBN 10: 0700603697 ISBN 13: 9780700603695
Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 1998

Synopsis

In this volume distinguished historians and political scientists examine political discourse during that short span of years from the Revolution through ratification, a period of profound political and conceptual change. The concepts of "sovereignty," "representation," "liberty," "virtue," "republic," "democracy"—even "constitution" itself—were virtually recoined. Others, like "federalism," were new inventions. Out of the vehement political arguments and debates of the period came not only a new Constitution but a new political vocabulary—a political idiom that was distinctly recognizably American.

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From the Back Cover

"Politics is a communicatively constituted activity. Words are its coin, and speech its medium. And yet, notoriously, the words which make up this medium have hotly contested and historically mutable meanings."--from the Introduction

"This volume calls attention to the changing or multiple meanings of key concepts and terms in Revolutionary-era political thought. As against the tendency to stress the relative homogeneity of the ideas that coalesced in the late 1780s, this collection creates, in effect, a set of case studies that illuminate the range of issues around which new and disputed positions formed."--Jack Rakove, author of The Beginnings of National Politics

About the Author

Terence Ball is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota.

J.G.A. Pocock is Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University

Contributors: Terence Ball, Lance Banning, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson, Daniel Walker Howe, Peter S. Onuf, J. G. A. Pocock, Gerald Stourzh, and Garry Wills

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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0700603697
ISBN 13 
9780700603695
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
232
Editor
Terence Ball, J. G. A. Pocock

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