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Crossroads for Liberty - Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America's First Constitution (Hardcover)
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Crossroads for Liberty - Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America's First Constitution (Hardcover)
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What did the American Founders actually intend for the country, and
does it even matter today? If America began as an idea, then what
kind of idea? In a time of increasing turmoil over American
history, politics, and society, Crossroads for Liberty: Recovering
the Anti-Federalist Values of America's First Constitution takes a
surprising and thought-provoking look at the American Revolution,
the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, and asks what
we can learn from them. Author William Watkins casts a critical eye
on conventional wisdom about the Articles of Confederation, as he
outlines the differences between that original U.S. governing
document and the Constitution, which replaced it. He finds that the
Articles protected individual liberty and community-centered
government in ways that the looser language of the U.S.
Constitution did not. Watkins draws from contemporary examples of
bureaucratic overreach and expansion to support his
argument-examples that were startlingly predicted by proponents of
small government at the time of the Constitution's adoption. Along
the way, he points back to the Articles and the values of the
American Revolution as a framework for reimagining American
politics to foster liberty and truly representative governance.
Crossroads for Liberty arrives at an important time in American
political life, and its reexamination of the American Founding
presents a significant contribution to the story about America.
Readers will come away with a greater understanding of current
political and constitutional issues, as well as a new perspective
on American history.
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