Political Philosophy and Rhetoric
A Study of the Origins of American Party Politics
John Zvesper(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. April 1977
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Hardback
224 pages
978-0-521-21323-3 (ISBN)
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This book analyses the origins of modern party politics in America. Dr Zvesper argues that the partisan conflict between Federalists and Republicans in the 1790s was not merely an interesting historical sequel to the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution, but was a confrontation of two of the fundamental alternatives of modern political philosophy. Consideration of this fact, along with evidence of the class structure of American society, is then used to explain why the Republican party was the natural superior in the dispute with Federalism, and why Republican philosophy and rhetoric have been so essential to American politics ever since.
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English
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Cambridge
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College/higher education
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440 gr
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978-0-521-21323-3 (9780521213233)
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1. Party government and party politics; Part I. The Federalist Project: 2. The Federalist science of politics; 3. The confidence of unchallenged Federalism; Part II. The Origins of Party Politics: 4. The Federalist practice of politics and the origins of the Republican party, 1789-92; Part III. The Republican Persuasion: 5. The idealism of the Republican challenge; 6. Principles and rhetoric in the critical elections of 1793-1800; 7. Party politics and party government.