New England Federalists (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Beginning with controversies related to British and French attacks on U.S. neutral trade in 1805, this book looks at crucial developments in national politics, public policy, and foreign relations from the perspective of New England Federalists. Through its focus on the partisan climate in Congress that appeared to influence federal statutes, New England Federalists: Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America sets out to explain why Federalists, especially those often deemed extreme or radical by contemporaries and historians alike, escalated a campaign to repeal the Constitution s three-fifths clause (which included slaves in the calculation for representation in the House of Representatives and electoral votes) while encouraging violations of federal laws and northern secession from the Union in response to Democratic-Republican restrictions on maritime commerce. Unlike traditional interpretations of early 19th century politics that focus on Jeffersonian political economy, this study brings the impetus for Federalist obstructionism and sectionalism into sharp relief. Federalists who became the sole defenders of New England s economic independence and free labor force in Congress, later issued calls for northerners to unite against the spread of slavery and southern control of the central government. Along with controversies that placed commerce, diplomacy, and sectional harmony in jeopardy, this work links several themes in Federalist opposition rhetoric before the War of 1812, to important antislavery arguments that matured and flourished in antebellum culture and politics."