TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leonard,Gerald Flood
TI  - The invention of party politics: federalism, popular sovereignty, and constitutional development in Jacksonian Illinois 
T2  - Studies in legal history
SN  - 0807861316
AV  - JK2295.I42 L46 2002eb
U1  - 324.2773/09/034 21
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - Chapel Hill, London
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Illinois
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Process
KW  - Political Parties
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Samfundsvidenskab
KW  - Politologi
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-317) and index; The antiparty constitutional tradition from Bolingbroke to Van Buren -- The antiparty consensus of the Illinois democracy -- State sovereignty and the "Proscriptive party," 1828-1830 -- National politics, the Constitution, and the price of party in Illinois, 1831-1834 -- Partyism unchained, 1834-1836 -- The spoils aristocracy and the paper aristocracy, 1837-1838 -- Ideological origins of the two-party constitution, 1839 -- The elections of 1839-1840 : popular sovereignty? -- The rise and fall of constitutional partyism : Illinois and the nation, 1815-1854
N2  - This work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. It rejects the view that Martin Van Buren and other Jacksonian politicians had the idea of a modern party system in mind when they built the original democratic system
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