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Heirs of the Founders: Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants. New York: Doubleday. Cogliano, Francis D. (2014). Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy. Elkins, Stanley; McKitrick, Eric (1990). The Age of Federalism - The Early American Republic, 1788 - 1800. Oxford University Press.
American Indian history scholars Donald Grinde and Bruce Johansen claim there is "overwhelming evidence" that Iroquois Confederacy political concepts and ideas influenced the U.S. Constitution, [105] and are considered to be the most outspoken supporters of the Iroquois thesis. [106]
Yale professor Robert A. Dahl saw a problem with an American tendency towards worship of the Constitution itself. He sees aspects of American governance which are "unusual and potentially undemocratic: the federal system, the bicameral legislature, judicial review, presidentialism, and the electoral college system."
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 is a nonfiction book written by the American historian Gordon S. Wood.Published as a clothbound hardcover in 2009 as part of the Oxford History of the United States series, the book narrates the history of the United States in the first twenty-six years following the ratification of the U. S. Constitution.
Gordon S. Wood ended The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, a 1969 book based on a dissertation supervised by Bernard Bailyn, with the "End of Classical Politics", the end of a particular iteration of Republicanism in the United States. Wood had argued that, after the Constitutional ratification debates, "the stability of government ...
The full name of the republic is the "United States of America". No other name appears in the Constitution, and this is the name that appears on money, in treaties, and in legal cases to which the nation is a party. The terms "Government of the United States of America" or "United States Government" are often used in official documents to ...
A post on X shows Trump ally Steve Bannon stating that President-Elect Donald Trump can actually run for a third term as President by law. Verdict: False The 22nd amendment of the U.S ...
The idea that America is "a republic, not a democracy" has been a recurring theme in American Republicanism since the early 20th century. It declared that not only is majoritarian "pure" democracy a form of tyranny (unjust and unstable) but that democracy, in general, is a distinct form of government from republicanism and that the United ...