The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s–1830s

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by  Gerald Leonard, Saul Cornell

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The Partisan Republic
ThePartisanRepublicisthefirstbooktouniteatopdownandbottom
up account of constitutional change in the Founding era. The book
focusesonthedeclineofthe Foundinggeneration’selitistvisionofthe
Constitution and the rise of a more “democratic” vision premised on
theexclusionofwomenandnon-whites.Itincorporatesrecentscholar-
shipontopicsrangingfromjudicialreviewtopopularconstitutionalism
toplacejudicialinitiativeslikeMarburyv.Madisoninabroader,socio-
legalcontext.Thebookrecognizestheroleofconstitutionaloutsidersas
agentsinshapingthe law,makingfiguressuchasthe Whiskey Rebels,
Judith Sargent Murray, and James Forten part of a cast of characters
that has traditionally been limited to white, male elites such as James
Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Marshall. Finally, it shows
how the “democratic” political party came to supplant the Supreme
Courtasthenation’spreeminentconstitutionalinstitution.
  isProfessorofLawatBostonUniversitySchoolof
LawandauthorofTheInventionofPartyPolitics:Federalism,Popular
Sovereignty,andConstitutionalDevelopmentinJacksonianIllinois.
  is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American
History at Fordham University and author of The Other Founders:
Antifederalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828
and A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins
ofGunControlinAmerica.
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The Partisan Republic
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Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders
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Constitution, 1780s 1830s
GERALD LEONARD
BostonUniversity
SAUL CORNELL
FordhamUniversity
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Gerry Leonard dedicates this book to Abigail, Sarah,
and Talia with love and admiration.
Saul Cornell dedicates this book to the memory of my
mother Estelle Cornell, the memory of my wife’s
mother Ollie Selleck, and my wife Susan.
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Contents
Acknowledgments pageix
Introduction 1
1 The New Constitution 8
2 The Federalist Constitution and the Limits of
Constitutional Dissent 42
3 The Democracy versus the Law: The Roleof the Federal
Judiciary, 1789–1815 84
4 The Paradoxes ofJeffersonian Constitutionalism 115
5 The White Democracy 146
6 The Marshall Court, theIndianNations,and the
Democratic Ascendancy 178
Conclusion: The Constitutional Triumph and Failure
of theDemocraticParty 210
Bibliographical Essay 225
Index 239
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Acknowledgments
Gerry Leonard wishes to acknowledge gratefully the help of Khiara
Bridges,KrisCollins,TomGreen,andAaronKnapp,eachofwhomread
sections ofthemanuscriptandofferedveryhelpfulfeedback.Portionsof
this book were presented at valuable workshops at the University of
Connecticut Schoolof Law and the Boston University School of Law.
Saul Cornell would like to thank Paul and Diane Guenther, whose
generous funding of a chair in American Constitutional history at Ford-
ham provided research support and leave time to work on this project.
Faculty workshops at Boston University, the University of Connecticut,
and Fordham School of Law provided lively venues to test many of the
ideas in this book. Invaluable research support was provided by Stephen
Leccese and Sophia Wise. Dan Kahan, Tracy Meares, and former Dean
Robert Post welcomed me as a senior visiting research scholar at Yale
Law School. Stephen Wilf and Richard Kay also provided congenial
reception as a visiting scholar at the University of Connecticut School
ofLaw.
Finally, we would like to thank the editors of this series, Michael
GrossbergandChristopherTomlins,fortheirpatienceandsavvyeditorial
guidance.
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