The Partisan Republic by Gerald Leonard, Saul Cornell - 9781107024168

The Partisan RepublicDemocracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders' Constitution, 1780s1830s\nAuthor(s): Gerald Leonard, Saul Cornell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107024168, 978-1107024168\nSynopsis\nThe Partisan Republicis the first book to unite a top down and bottom up account of constitutional change in the Founding era. The book focuses on the decline of the Founding generation's elitist vision of the Constitution and the rise of a more 'democratic' vision premised on the exclusion of women and non-whites. It incorporates recent scholarship on topics ranging from judicial review to popular constitutionalism to place judicial initiatives like Marbury vs Madisonin a broader, socio-legal context. The book recognizes the role of constitutional outsiders as agents in shaping the law, making figures such as the Whiskey Rebels, Judith Sargent Murray, and James Forten part of a cast of ch.