An edition of A constitutional history of the United States
(1935)
A constitutional history of the United States
by Andrew C. McLaughlin
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The old empire
3. The problem of imperial organization & the Albany Plan
4. The writs of assistance and the Revenue Act
5. The Stamp Act
6. After the Stamp Act
7. An obdurate parliament and obstinate colonies, 1769-1773 & the great controversy between governor and legislature in Massachusetts
8. The Intolerable Acts & the arguments in denial of parliamentary authority
9. The Congresses of 1774-1775
10. The philosophy of the Revolution and the Declaration of Independence
11. Early state constitutions
12. The Articles of Confederation
13. The tribulations of the Confederate Period & the chief problem of the time
14. The Federal Convention : Determination to found a national government
Controversy and compromise; the essentials of Federalism; coercion of law and not of arms
Sectional diversity; slavery; the presidency; the philosophy of the fathers
15. The adoption of the Constitution
16. Organization of the government, Hamilton's financial policy, implied powers & the Judicial System
17. The establishment of the Executive Departments and the development of the Cabinet
18. The establishment of the authority of the Executive in foreign affairs
19. The Alien and Sedition Acts
20. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
21. The Election of 1800 & the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801
22. The Annexation of Louisiana
23. John Marshall, Chief Justice, the early history of the Supreme Court & Marbury v. Madison
24. The impeachment of Pickering and Chase & the Burr Conspiracy
25. Federal and state differences, federalist opposition, the Embargo & the Olmstead Case
26. The War of 1812
27. Conditions after 1815, the rise of the new west & internal improvements
28. The development of State Constitutions
29. The Missouri Compromise
30. Constitutional law under Chief Justice Marshall
31. The party system and party machinery, the death of King Caucus
32. Jackson and the bank, the emergence of the modern presidency
33. Georgia and states' rights, South Carolina resorts to nullification, and the theories of John C. Calhoun
34. Chief Justice Taney and the Supreme Court
35. Early controversies over the slavery problem (1833-1842)
36. The annexation of Texas
37. War with Mexico, the Wilmot Proviso, and slavery in the Territories
38. The Compromise of 1850
39. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise
40. The Dred Scott Case
41. The struggle for Kansas
42. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
43. The eve of the Civil War
44. Constitutional problems of the Civil War
45. Reconstruction 1: early problems & radical victory
46. Reconstruction 2: Congress has its way & impeachment
47. Reconstruction 3: the Union restored, carpet baggers, and federal troops
48. The Election of 1876
49. The Fourteenth Amendment
50. The later years of the Nineteenth Century, development of national authority, and the problem of imperialism
51. Interstate commerce, railroads, trusts, amendments, the presidency, and conclusion.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pulitzer Prize, History, 1936.
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