@article{1478855,
      recid = {1478855},
      author = {Pearl, Sharrona, },
      title = {About Faces : Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain /},
      pages = {1 online resource (302 p.)},
      abstract = {Federalism is regarded as one of the signal American  contributions to modern politics. Its origins are typically  traced to the drafting of the Constitution, but the story  began decades before the delegates met in Philadelphia. In  this groundbreaking book, Alison LaCroix traces the history  of American federal thought from its colonial beginnings in  scattered provincial responses to British assertions of  authority, to its emergence in the late eighteenth century  as a normative theory of multilayered government. The core  of this new federal ideology was a belief that multiple  independent levels of government could legitimately exist  within a single polity, and that such an arrangement was  not a defect but a virtue. This belief became a  foundational principle and aspiration of the American  political enterprise. LaCroix thus challenges the  traditional account of republican ideology as the single  dominant framework for eighteenth-century American  political thought. Understanding the emerging federal  ideology returns constitutional thought to the central  place that it occupied for the founders. Federalism was not  a necessary adaptation to make an already designed system  work; it was the system. Connecting the colonial,  revolutionary, founding, and early national periods in one  story reveals the fundamental reconfigurations of legal and  political power that accompanied the formation of the  United States. The emergence of American federalism should  be understood as a critical ideological development of the  period, and this book is essential reading for everyone  interested in the American story.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478855},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054400},
}