Federalism: The lost tradition?

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 1-13

  McCoy, Charles S ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a004889     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Daniel Elazar was a distinguished professor of political science at Temple University. He founded and directed the Center for the Study of Federalism at Temple and, through his friendships and through Center conferences developed a circle of scholars interested in the federal tradition.
2. Forrest McDonald, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1985), p. vii.
3. Ibid., p. 262.
4. See Charles S. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (New York, 1913); Forrest McDonald, E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790 (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979); Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1967); J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavelian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975); Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1955); and Garry Wills, Explaining America: The Federalist (Garden City: Doubleday, 1978).
5. See Charles S. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (New York, 1913); Forrest McDonald, E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790 (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979); Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1967); J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavelian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975); Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1955); and Garry Wills, Explaining America: The Federalist (Garden City: Doubleday, 1978).
6. See Charles S. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (New York, 1913); Forrest McDonald, E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790 (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979); Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1967); J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavelian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975); Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1955); and Garry Wills, Explaining America: The Federalist (Garden City: Doubleday, 1978).
7. See Charles S. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (New York, 1913); Forrest McDonald, E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790 (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979); Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1967); J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavelian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975); Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1955); and Garry Wills, Explaining America: The Federalist (Garden City: Doubleday, 1978).
8. See Charles S. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (New York, 1913); Forrest McDonald, E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790 (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979); Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1967); J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavelian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975); Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1955); and Garry Wills, Explaining America: The Federalist (Garden City: Doubleday, 1978).
9. See Charles S. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (New York, 1913); Forrest McDonald, E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790 (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979); Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1967); J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavelian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975); Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1955); and Garry Wills, Explaining America: The Federalist (Garden City: Doubleday, 1978).
10. William C. Morey, "The Sources of American Federalism," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (September 1895): 197.
11. Albert C. Outler, "The Reformation and Classical Protestantism," The Vitality of the Christian Tradition ,ed. George F. Thomas (New York: Harper and Bros., 1944), p. 135.
12. Charles S. McCoy, The Covenant Theology of Johannes Cocceius (Ph.D. Dissertation: Yale University, 1957; Ann Arbor, 1965).
13. Ralph L. Ketcham, "James Madison and the Nature of Man," Journal of the History of Ideas XIX (January 1958).
14. William E. Gladstone, "Kin Beyond the Sea," The North American Review 127 (September 1878): 185.
15. Henry F. May, The Enlightenment in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976), p. 88.
16. Quoted in Martha Lou Lemmon Stohlman, John Witherspoon: Parson, Politician, Patriot (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), p. 15.
17. Carl Van Doren, The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States (New York: Viking Press, 1948), p. 70.
18. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, With an introduction and commentary by Garry Wills (New York: Bantam Books, 1982).
19. Ibid., pp. 263, 265. In Federalist 18-20, Madison reports the results of his study of previous governments in the federal tradition and gives the reason for his research: "I make no apology for having dwelt so long on the contemplation of these federal precedents. Experience is the oracle of truth" (p. 98).
20. Ibid., pp. 263, 265. In Federalist 18-20, Madison reports the results of his study of previous governments in the federal tradition and gives the reason for his research: "I make no apology for having dwelt so long on the contemplation of these federal precedents. Experience is the oracle of truth" (p. 98).
21. See Daniel J. Elazar, From Biblical Covenant to Modern Federalism: The Federal Theological Bridge (Philadelphia: The Center for the Study of Federalism, 1980), passim; Daniel J. Elazar and John Kincaid, eds., The Covenant Connection: From Federal Theology to Modern Federalism (Lantham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000).
22. See Daniel J. Elazar, From Biblical Covenant to Modern Federalism: The Federal Theological Bridge (Philadelphia: The Center for the Study of Federalism, 1980), passim; Daniel J. Elazar and John Kincaid, eds., The Covenant Connection: From Federal Theology to Modern Federalism (Lantham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000).
23. See Charles S. McCoy and J. Wayne Baker, Fountainhead of Federalism: Heinrich Bullinger and the Covenantal Tradition (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991), for a translation of Bullinger's seminal treatise, a brief history of the development of federalism in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, and a bibliography on the federal tradition.
24. See, for example, Delba Winthrop, "Tocqueville on Federalism," Publius: The Journal of Federalism 6 (Summer 1976): 93, where the author writes, "it does not seem strange to Americans that any book concerning American democracy should be addressed extensively to the phenomenon of federalism. But one such book, frequently cited as authoritative, is, on reflection, somewhat strange in its extensive treatment of federalism - Tocqueville's Democracy in America."
25. Carl J. Friedrich, Trends of Federalism in Theory and Practice (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968), p. 14.
26. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 5th ed., 1976.
27. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1972.
28. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.
29. Wood, viii-x.
30. pp. 3-45
31. Beer, vii-ix
32. Ibid., xiv-xv.
33. Ibid., 27-132. Part One: From Hierarchy to Republicanism. 1. The Rule of the Wise and the Holy: Thomas Aquinas. 2. The Idea of the National Republic: John Milton. 3. A Constitution for the National Republic: James Harrington.
34. The Politics of Johannes Althusius, translated and with an Introduction by Frederick S. Carney (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964), pp.4-5. This discussion appears in the "Preface to the First Edition" (1603). Althusius, a part of the federal stream of theology and politics within the Reformed tradition, was the first person to formulate a federal political philosophy. See also, Thomas O. Hueglin, Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World: Althuius on Community and Federalism (Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 1999).
35. The Politics of Johannes Althusius, translated and with an Introduction by Frederick S. Carney (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964), pp.4-5. This discussion appears in the "Preface to the First Edition" (1603). Althusius, a part of the federal stream of theology and politics within the Reformed tradition, was the first person to formulate a federal political philosophy. See also, Thomas O. Hueglin, Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World: Althuius on Community and Federalism (Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 1999).
36. Perry Miller, ed., The American Puritans: Their Poetry and Prose (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956), pp. 89-93.