Abstract
Written for the Symposium on Gerald Leonard and Saul Cornell, The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders' Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Gerry Leonard and Saul Cornell’s fascinating book, The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780-1830s tells the story, as I put in in a blurb, “of the unsettling transformation of aristocratic-tinged constitutional republic into a partisan white male democracy.” In this year where we recall the Nineteenth Amendment’s re-enfranchisement of women, the Leonard/Cornell book demands that we reevaluate the way we describe the early nineteenth-century constitutional state. In short, why do we continue to use the word democracy?
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- Subject
Constitutional Law
Legal History
- Journal title
Balkinization
- Date submitted
6 September 2022
- Additional information
Originally published at https://balkin.blogspot.com/2020/04/white-male-aristocracy.html.
Suggested Citation:
"White Male Aristocracy," Symposium on Gerald Leonard and Saul Cornell, The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders' Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Balkinization, April 30, 2020.