Eric Nelson is Robert M. Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University.
Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In this revisionist account, Eric Nelson argues that a great many of our "founding fathers" saw themselves as rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. The Royalist Revolution interprets the patriot campaign of the 1770s as an insurrection in favor of royal power--driven by the conviction that the Lords and Commons had usurped the just prerogatives of the monarch.
Leading patriots believed that the colonies were the king's own to govern, and they urged George III to defy Parliament and rule directly. These theorists were proposing to turn back the clock on the English constitution, rejecting the Whig settlement that had secured the supremacy of Parliament after the Glorious Revolution. Instead, they embraced the political theory of those who had waged the last great campaign against Parliament's "usurpations" the reviled Stuart monarchs of the seventeenth century.
When it came time to design the state and federal constitutions, the very same figures who had defended this expansive conception of royal authority--John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, and their allies--returned to the fray as champions of a single executive vested with sweeping prerogatives. As a result of their labors, the Constitution of 1787 would assign its new president far more power than any British monarch had wielded for almost a hundred years. On one side of the Atlantic, Nelson concludes, there would be kings without monarchy; on the other, monarchy without kings.
导论: “反对议会的战争” 在1787年6月1日的制宪会议上,宾州的詹姆斯·威尔逊(James Wilson)起立提出动议创设美国总统一职。他提议说,这一新的联邦行政长官职位,将“由一个人担任”,并且这个主要的行政长官将被赋予广泛的特权。[[[] ] 他的同事,弗吉尼亚州的埃德蒙·...
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评分我又来写差评了。这本书的主题乍看起来非常具有颠覆性,但仔细想来,所有反直觉观点的根源是作者对于“王权派”一词含混其词的使用。 首先来梳理一下本书对于“王权派”主张的核心内容。在第一章中,作者提出王权派不仅仅是策略性地主张国王对殖民地拥有专权,用以对抗英国议会...
评分导论: “反对议会的战争” 在1787年6月1日的制宪会议上,宾州的詹姆斯·威尔逊(James Wilson)起立提出动议创设美国总统一职。他提议说,这一新的联邦行政长官职位,将“由一个人担任”,并且这个主要的行政长官将被赋予广泛的特权。[[[] ] 他的同事,弗吉尼亚州的埃德蒙·...
评分我又来写差评了。这本书的主题乍看起来非常具有颠覆性,但仔细想来,所有反直觉观点的根源是作者对于“王权派”一词含混其词的使用。 首先来梳理一下本书对于“王权派”主张的核心内容。在第一章中,作者提出王权派不仅仅是策略性地主张国王对殖民地拥有专权,用以对抗英国议会...
Yale Bookstore偶见即心仪之。八月断断续续读完,近日详做笔记。Nelson此书旨在勾出美国革命中隐蔽的“拥英王,反国会”思想线索。John Adams, James Wilson, Alexander Hamilton诸君自美革命初昌言之,后在1776年时因英王George III不予配合而受挫,但却又借Thomas Paine之力变相延续下来(此节最见作者思想史功力,不愧Skinner弟子),终于1787美宪中发扬光大。对理解美国制宪之主题以及总统制之思想脉络助益甚大。
评分Yale Bookstore偶见即心仪之。八月断断续续读完,近日详做笔记。Nelson此书旨在勾出美国革命中隐蔽的“拥英王,反国会”思想线索。John Adams, James Wilson, Alexander Hamilton诸君自美革命初昌言之,后在1776年时因英王George III不予配合而受挫,但却又借Thomas Paine之力变相延续下来(此节最见作者思想史功力,不愧Skinner弟子),终于1787美宪中发扬光大。对理解美国制宪之主题以及总统制之思想脉络助益甚大。
评分Yale Bookstore偶见即心仪之。八月断断续续读完,近日详做笔记。Nelson此书旨在勾出美国革命中隐蔽的“拥英王,反国会”思想线索。John Adams, James Wilson, Alexander Hamilton诸君自美革命初昌言之,后在1776年时因英王George III不予配合而受挫,但却又借Thomas Paine之力变相延续下来(此节最见作者思想史功力,不愧Skinner弟子),终于1787美宪中发扬光大。对理解美国制宪之主题以及总统制之思想脉络助益甚大。
评分Yale Bookstore偶见即心仪之。八月断断续续读完,近日详做笔记。Nelson此书旨在勾出美国革命中隐蔽的“拥英王,反国会”思想线索。John Adams, James Wilson, Alexander Hamilton诸君自美革命初昌言之,后在1776年时因英王George III不予配合而受挫,但却又借Thomas Paine之力变相延续下来(此节最见作者思想史功力,不愧Skinner弟子),终于1787美宪中发扬光大。对理解美国制宪之主题以及总统制之思想脉络助益甚大。
评分Yale Bookstore偶见即心仪之。八月断断续续读完,近日详做笔记。Nelson此书旨在勾出美国革命中隐蔽的“拥英王,反国会”思想线索。John Adams, James Wilson, Alexander Hamilton诸君自美革命初昌言之,后在1776年时因英王George III不予配合而受挫,但却又借Thomas Paine之力变相延续下来(此节最见作者思想史功力,不愧Skinner弟子),终于1787美宪中发扬光大。对理解美国制宪之主题以及总统制之思想脉络助益甚大。
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