附註: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.
摘要: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.
