Conceptual Change and the Constitution 9780700603695 (Hardback)

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Conceptual Change and the Constitution : University Press of Kansas : 9780700603695 : 0700603697 : 30 Sep 1998 : 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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