Compromise and the American Founding
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Compromise and the American Founding
The Quest for the People's Two Bodies
Fumurescu, Alin
Cambridge University Press
09/2019
266
Dura
Inglês
9781108415873
15 a 20 dias
500
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1. Introduction: 'one political being called a people ...'; 1.1. One people, two bodies; 1.2. Compromise and the challenge of realism; 1.3. E Pluribus Unum; the people's two bodies - then and now; 2. The uncompromising Puritans: 'If the whole conclave of hell can so compromise ...'; 2.1. '... Puritanism was in the eye of the beholder'; 2.2. '... As the entrails of a creature cut down the back'; 2.3. '... They look backward as well as forward'; 2.4. '... They don't weigh the intellectual furniture ...'; 2.5. '... Until a better light will be available to guide them'; 3. The uncompromising patriots: 'friends, brethren, enemies will prove ...'; 3.1. '... We are breaking to pieces in our churches'; 3.2. In the wake of the awakening; 3.3. 'How then do we new Englandermen derive our laws?'; 3.4. The king 'unkings himself'; 4. The compromising confederates: '... mounting a body of mermaids on alligators'; 4.1. '... A rope of sand'; 4.2. 'We are the state'; 4.3. '... Mutual sacrifices should be made to effect a compromise ...'; 5. The constitution: '... that greatest of all compromises'; 5.1. 'The states must see the rod ...'; 5.2. '... To smoke the calumet of union and love'; 5.3. 'The house on fire must be extinguished ...'; 5.4. 'It will wait upon the ladies at their toilett ...'; 6. 'This is essentially a people's contest': 'Shall we compromise?'; 6.1. '... Fresh from the loins of the people ...'; 6.2. 'Party spirit ... only ask to lick the sores of the body politic'; 6.3. 'The day of compromise has passed'; 7. Conclusions: resuscitating the people's two bodies; 7.1. Parties without partisanship?; 7.2. Purged Individualism and Facebook; 7.3. "We, the people ...'.
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1. Introduction: 'one political being called a people ...'; 1.1. One people, two bodies; 1.2. Compromise and the challenge of realism; 1.3. E Pluribus Unum; the people's two bodies - then and now; 2. The uncompromising Puritans: 'If the whole conclave of hell can so compromise ...'; 2.1. '... Puritanism was in the eye of the beholder'; 2.2. '... As the entrails of a creature cut down the back'; 2.3. '... They look backward as well as forward'; 2.4. '... They don't weigh the intellectual furniture ...'; 2.5. '... Until a better light will be available to guide them'; 3. The uncompromising patriots: 'friends, brethren, enemies will prove ...'; 3.1. '... We are breaking to pieces in our churches'; 3.2. In the wake of the awakening; 3.3. 'How then do we new Englandermen derive our laws?'; 3.4. The king 'unkings himself'; 4. The compromising confederates: '... mounting a body of mermaids on alligators'; 4.1. '... A rope of sand'; 4.2. 'We are the state'; 4.3. '... Mutual sacrifices should be made to effect a compromise ...'; 5. The constitution: '... that greatest of all compromises'; 5.1. 'The states must see the rod ...'; 5.2. '... To smoke the calumet of union and love'; 5.3. 'The house on fire must be extinguished ...'; 5.4. 'It will wait upon the ladies at their toilett ...'; 6. 'This is essentially a people's contest': 'Shall we compromise?'; 6.1. '... Fresh from the loins of the people ...'; 6.2. 'Party spirit ... only ask to lick the sores of the body politic'; 6.3. 'The day of compromise has passed'; 7. Conclusions: resuscitating the people's two bodies; 7.1. Parties without partisanship?; 7.2. Purged Individualism and Facebook; 7.3. "We, the people ...'.
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