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The Rise of the Federal Colossus

The Growth of Federal Power from Lincoln to F.D.R.

By: Peter Zavodnyik

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The Rise of the Federal Colossus

The Growth of Federal Power from Lincoln to F.D.R.

By: Peter Zavodnyik

This challenging book explores the debates over the scope of the enumerated powers of Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment that accompanied the expansion of federal authority during the period between the beginning of the Civil War and the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Rise of the Federal Colossus: The Growth of Federal Power from Lincoln to F.D.R. offers readers a front-row seat for the critical phases of a debate that is at the very center of American history, exploring such controversial issues as what powers are bestowed on the federal government, what its role should be, and how the Constitution should be interpreted. The book argues that the critical period in the growth of federal power was not the New Deal and the three decades that followed, but the preceding 72 years when important precedents establishing the national government's authority to aid citizens in distress, regulate labor, and take steps to foster economic growth were established. The author explores newspaper and magazine articles, as well as congressional debates and court opinions, to determine how Americans perceived the growing authority of their national government and examine arguments over whether novel federal activities had any constitutional basis. Responses of government to the enormous changes that took place during this period are also surveyed.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216140030

The Age of Strict Construction

A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789-1861

By: Peter Zavodnyik

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The Age of Strict Construction

A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789-1861

By: Peter Zavodnyik

The Age of Strict Construction explores the growth of the federal government's power and influence between 1789 and 1861, and the varying reactions of Americans to that growth.

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384

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CUA Press

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0813215048

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9780813215044

Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution

By: Peter Charles Hoffer

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Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution

By: Peter Charles Hoffer

Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day. Peter Charles Hoffer builds a persuasive case that Webster was more than a skilled practitioner who rose rapidly from his hardscrabble New Hampshire origins. Hoffer thoroughly documents the ways in which Webster was an innovative jurist. While Chief Justice John Marshall gets credit for much of our early constitutional jurisprudence, in fact in a series of key cases Marshall simply borrowed Webster’s oral and written arguments. For Webster, Marshall, and many lawyers and jurists of their day, professions of adherence to the Constitution were universal. Yet they knew that the Constitution could not be fixed in time; its text needed to be read in light of the rapidly transforming early republic and antebellum eras or it would become irrelevant. As Chief Justice Marshall explained in Bank of the United States v. Deveaux (1809): “A constitution, from its nature, deals in generals, not in detail. Its framers cannot perceive minute distinctions which arise in the progress of the nation, and therefore confine it to the establishment of broad and general principles.” But were these “broad and general principles” themselves fixed? For Webster there were landmarks: the Contract Clause and the Commerce Clause. While others were exploring and surveying the Northwest Territory and the Louisiana Purchase, Webster set out to map the spaces in the constitutional and legal landscape that were unmarked. Peter Charles Hoffer provides an insightful and timely study of how Webster’s analysis of three key constitutional issues is relevant to today’s constitutional conflicts: the relationship between law and politics, between public policy and private rights, and between the federal government and the states, all of which remain contentious in our constitutional jurisprudence and crucial to our constitutional order.

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University Press of Kansas

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070063200X

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9780700632008

The Age of Strict Construction

A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789-1861

By: Peter Zavodnyik

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The Age of Strict Construction

A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789-1861

By: Peter Zavodnyik

The Age of Strict Construction explores the growth of the federal government's power and influence between 1789 and 1861, and the varying reactions of Americans to that growth.

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0813215048

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The Rise of the Federal Colossus

The Growth of Federal Power from Lincoln to F.D.R.

By: Peter Zavodnyik

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The Growth of Federal Power from Lincoln to F.D.R.

By: Peter Zavodnyik

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Book's by Peter Zavodnyik

The Rise of the Federal Colossus

The Rise of the Federal Colossus

The Age of Strict Construction

The Age of Strict Construction

Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution

Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution

The Age of Strict Construction

The Age of Strict Construction

The Rise of the Federal Colossus

The Rise of the Federal Colossus

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