Recreating the American Republic : Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700-1870 (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; 2. Raising leviathan: British-American relations, 1700?1774; 3. Our emperors have no clothes: the macro-micro synthesis and the American Revolution; 4. Union over multiplicity: a bond of words, a confederation in speech, and the constitutional rule of equal state apportionment; 5. Contours of the confederation: macro-level conditions, 1776?1786; 6. Divide et impera: constitutional heresthetics and the breaking of the articles; 7. The veil of representational certainty: the 1787 constitutional convention; 8. The relational republic: macro-level conditions, 1790?1860; 9. Between consent and coercion: libido dominandum and the end of representation; 10. Conclusions.