A Politics of Tensions: The Articles of Confederation and American Political Ideas |
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Contents
The Tensions of a Mixed Political Tradition | 1 |
A Perpetual Union of Sovereign States | 29 |
Republican and Democrat | 45 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Politics of Tensions: The Articles of Confederation and American Political Ideas |
| Author | Robert W. Hoffert |
| Publisher | University Press of Colorado, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 13, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0870812548, 9780870812545 |
| Length | 223 pages |
| Subjects | › Political Science / General |
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