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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2015
      09 September 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316344194
      9781107121607
      9781107547421
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316344194
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 196 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.27kg, 196 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, History, Politics and International Relations, Early Republic and Antebellum History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, History, Politics and International Relations, Early Republic and Antebellum History
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    This book presents a provocative account of James Madison's political thought by focusing on Madison's lifelong encounter with the enduring problem of constitutional imperfection. In particular, it emphasizes Madison's alliance with Thomas Jefferson, liberating it from those long-standing accounts of Madisonian constitutionalism that emphasize deliberation by elites and constitutional veneration. Contrary to much of the scholarship, this book shows that Madison was aware of the limits of the inventions of political science and held a far more subtle understanding of the possibility of constitutional government than has been recognized. By repositioning Madison as closer to Jefferson and the Revolution of 1800, this book offers a reinterpretation of one of the central figures of the early republic.

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    'Jeremy Bailey’s remarkable and transformative book does what great scholarship always does: forces us to reconceptualize and reconsider categories we have long taken for granted. By carefully and systematically dislodging James Madison’s evolving thought from what he calls the 'Madisonian Constitutionalism' that has to this point set the boundaries of our conversation, Bailey has given us a considerably more complex story and made it impossible to read Madison in the same old way again.'

    Brian Steele - author of Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood

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