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050 00 $aE310$b.B345 2017
082 00 $a973.3$223
100 1 $aBerkin, Carol,$eauthor.
245 12 $aA sovereign people :$bthe crises of the 1790s and the birth of American nationalism /$cCarol Berkin.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bBasic Books,$c[2017]
300 $aix, 307 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 253-291) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- The Whiskey Rebellion -- The Genet Affair -- The XYZ Affair -- The Alien and Sedition Acts -- Conclusion.
520 $a"Americans like to believe that the Constitution miraculously brought the United States into being, as though the framers established, in one stroke, the nation we know today. Yet when George Washington delivered his First Inaugural Address on April 30, 1789, he expressed worry about the challenges that lay ahead. He was right to be concerned: the existence of the new nation was anything but secure. Without the support of the American people, after all, the Constitution was only a piece of paper. In [this book], the [author] argues that the young nation would not have survived absent the interventions of the Federalists, above all Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams. In power throughout the decade, they faced four successive crises of sovereignty. The Whiskey Rebellion was a domestic revolt over the right of the federal government to levy taxes. The Genet Affair saw a reckless French diplomat appeal directly to the American people, in opposition to Washington. The XYZ Affair involved foreign threats intended to draw the United States into a European war. The final crisis was self-inflicted, the result of the Federalists' desire to silence their critics in the press, in the form of the Alien and Sedition Acts. In each instance, the Federalists demonstrated the necessity of the federal government established by the Constitution, and by decade's end, the American people understood that without an "energetic government," there could be no United States. As [the author] ultimately reveals, while the Revolution freed the states and the Constitution linked them as never before, it was the Federalists who transformed them into an enduring nation."--Dust jacket.
600 10 $aGenet, Edmond Charles,$d1763-1834.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1783-1815.
650 0 $aNationalism$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aWhiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794.
650 0 $aXYZ Affair, 1797-1798.
650 0 $aAlien and Sedition laws, 1798.
650 0 $aKentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBerkin, Carol, author.$tSovereign people$dNew York : Basic Books, [2017]$z9780465094936$w(DLC) 2016049490
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