Edmund Randolph and Virginia Constitutionalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6403206 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin R C Gutzman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 469-498 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670500038870 |
| OpenAlex | W2118021638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Scholars have long been under the impression that the doctrines enunciated in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 and the Virginia Report of 1800 originated with the authors of those documents, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Yet this article demonstrates that it was not either of those two future presidents who concocted what Andrew Jackson would dub “the Virginia Doctrine.” That distinction belongs to Governor Edmund Randolph, a non-signer of the Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention who became a leading voice for ratification in the Virginia Ratification Convention of 1788. The trajectory of Randolph's thinking regarding federalism and the story of his doctrine's effect in 1788 are recounted here. Ironically, the reading of the Constitution that would underpin various outbreaks of sectionalism in the antebellum period and later originated with a Federalist of 1788, not with an opponent of ratification
Constitution · Constitutionalism · Convention · Democracy · Doctrine · Federalism · Federalist · Jeffersonian democracy · Political science · Politics · Ratification · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · History · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies
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Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty
George Mason
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison
The Constitution and the States
Free in the World
The Great Chief Justice
Federal Union, Modern World
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Reconsidered
The Constitution and the States
The Union As It Is
The Great Chief Justice
The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803
Alexander Hamilton
Free in the World
Interpreting the Constitution. The Debate over Original Intent
States' Rights and the Union
American Law and the Constitutional Order
Edmund Randolph
George Mason
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |