{"product_id":"the-interbellum-constitution-union-commerce-and-slavery-in-the-age-of-federalisms-yale-law-library-series-in-legal-history-and-reference","title":"The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)","description":"A synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. constitutional vision\n\nBetween 1815 and 1861, American constitutional law and politics underwent a profound transformation. These decades of the Interbellum Constitution were a foundational period of both constitutional crisis and creativity.\n\nThe Interbellum Constitution was a set of widely shared legal and political principles, combined with a thoroughgoing commitment to investing those principles with meaning through debate. Each of these shared principles—commerce, concurrent power, and jurisdictional multiplicity—concerned what we now call “federalism,” meaning that they pertain to the relationships among multiple levels of government with varying degrees of autonomy. Alison L. LaCroix argues, however, that there existed many more federalisms in the early nineteenth century than today’s constitutional debates admit.\n\nAs LaCroix shows, this was a period of intense rethinking of the very basis of the U.S. national model—a problem debated everywhere, from newspapers and statehouses to local pubs and pulpits, ultimately leading both to civil war and to a new, more unified constitutional vision. This book is the first that synthesizes the legal, political, and social history of the early nineteenth century to show how deeply these constitutional questions dominated the discourse of the time.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0300223218\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: GBV.0300223218.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:LaCroix, Alison L.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy does have writing in the first 15 pages.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Good Books Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56102157648177,"sku":"GBV.0300223218.G","price":36.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/3730\/2065\/files\/0300223218-0.jpg?v=1788459776","url":"https:\/\/goodbookscompany.org\/products\/the-interbellum-constitution-union-commerce-and-slavery-in-the-age-of-federalisms-yale-law-library-series-in-legal-history-and-reference","provider":"Good Books Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}