"Liberty and Order" is an ambitious anthology of primary source
writings: letters, circulars, debate transcriptions, House
proceedings, and newspaper articles that document the years during
which America's founding generation divided over the sort of
country the United States was to become.The founders' arguments
over the proper construction of the new Constitution, the political
economy, the appropriate level of popular participation in a
republican polity, foreign policy, and much else, not only
contributed crucially to the shaping of the nineteenth-century
United States, but also have remained of enduring interest to all
historians of republican liberty.This anthology makes it possible
to understand the grounds and development of the great collision,
which pitted John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and others who called
themselves Federalists or, sometimes, the friends of order, against
the opposition party led by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and
their followers, in what emerged as the Jeffersonian Republican
Party.Editor Lance Banning provides the reader with original-source
explanations of early anti-Federalist feeling and Federalist
concerns, beginning with the seventh letter from the "Federal
Farmer," in which the deepest fears of many opponents of the
Constitution were expressed. He then selects from the House
proceedings concerning the Bill of Rights and makes his way toward
the public debates concerning the massive revolutionary debt
acquired by the United States. The reader is able to examine the
American reaction to the French Revolution and to the War of 1812,
and to explore the founders' disagreements over both domestic and
foreign policy. The collection ends on a somewhat melancholy note
with the correspondence of Jefferson and Adams, who were, to some
extent, reconciled to each other at the end of their political
careers. Brief, elucidatory headnotes place both the novice and the
expert in the midst of the times.With this significant new
collection, the reader receives a deeper understanding of the
complex issues, struggles, and personalities that made up the first
great party battle and that continue to shape our representative
government today.Lance Banning (1942-2006) was Professor of History
at the University of Kentucky, where he had taught since 1973, and
was the 2000/2001 Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts
and Sciences. He was also coeditor of the University Press of
Kansas series "American Political Thought" and the author of many
articles, essays, and books on the American founding and first
party struggle, including three award-winning books: "Jefferson and
Madison: Three Conversations from the Founding," "The Jeffersonian
Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology," and "The Sacred Fire of
Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic,"
the latter two of which were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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