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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (132 page)
and class divisions,
228
and criminal law,
436
,
439
and Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen,
71
–72
and democratization,
429
and the federal judiciary,
400
,
403
–4,
409
,
411
,
416
–18,
424
,
425
–27,
428
,
430
–31
and judicial review,
434
,
448
and Marshall,
438
–39
and Orleans Territory,
373
and religion,
591
and sedition laws,
258
–59,
260
,
309
and the states,
431
–32,
457
and strict construction of the Constitution,
271
Common Sense
(Paine),
10
–11
Compensation Act,
719
competition,
322
,
325
–29,
364
,
462
Compromise of 1790,
143
–45
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de,
178
Confederation Congress: and the Barbary Wars,
634
and capital location,
142
and Madison,
61
and national bank plans,
98
and Native Americans,
125
and New York City,
56
and western settlement,
115
,
122
Congregationalists,
167
,
244
,
490
,
580
–81,
583
,
603
–4
Congressional Record
,
59
Connecticut: and the Bill of Rights,
72
corporate charter,
460
demographics,
341
and the federal judiciary,
412
and penal reform,
494
and religion,
579
,
583
,
591
,
594
and roads,
481
–82
and slavery,
518
,
520
and social structure,
712
and state debts,
141
and state judiciary,
401
–2
and the War of 1812,
661
,
677
and women’s rights,
501
Connecticut Academy,
477
Connecticut Compromise,
32
Connecticut Courant
,
586
Connecticut Land Company,
117
Connecticut River,
484
conspiracy theories,
244
–45,
722
Constitution, English,
216
,
444
.
See also
U.S. Constitution
Constitutional Convention: and the Bill of Rights,
55
,
66
and failing of the Articles of Confederation,
15
and the federal judiciary,
445
–46
and Hamilton,
90
,
92
and incorporation charters,
461
n78
and international commerce,
626
and judicial review,
444
and military power,
111
and religion,
589
and separation of powers,
33
and slavery,
518
–19,
532
and treaty powers,
199
and the Virginia Plan,
412
and Washington,
73
constitutional law,
447
.
See also
judiciary, federal
constructive treason,
439
–40
Continental Congress,
26
,
31
,
82
,
135
,
190
–91,
230
,
561
Continental Divide,
380
contract clause,
456
Cooke, James,
544
Cooke, Samuel,
518
Cooper, Ann,
320
Cooper, Hannah,
320
Cooper, James Fenimore,
118
,
224
,
320
,
711
Cooper, William: and class divisions,
106
,
223
–25,
225
–26,
230
and land speculation,
118
–19
and religion,
590
and the Sedition Act,
262
and social changes,
318
–19,
344
Cooper, William, Jr.,
320
Cooper v. Telfair
,
447
Copenhagen, Denmark,
649
Copley, John Singleton,
545
,
552
The Coquette . . . Founded on Fact
(Foster),
501
,
566
–67
Cornwallis, Charles,
241
corporations and corporate charters,
459
–66,
482
Corps of Discovery,
379
.
See also
Lewis and Clark expedition
Corps of Engineers,
292
Corwin, Edward,
443
n28
council of revision,
412
,
446
,
454
The Country Seats of the United States of America
(Birch),
559
–60
country-Whigs,
287
county fairs,
325
–26
Coups, Elliott,
381
n56
Cram, Nancy Grove,
598
Cranch, William,
454
credit and lending.
See also
debt: and agriculture,
323
and bank notes,
294
and the federal judiciary,
409
n25,
415
and market economics,
324
n23
and the War of 1812,
692
and Washington’s farewell address,
208
Creek Indians,
123
,
129
,
133
,
686
–87
Creole culture,
520
Crèvecoeur, Hector St. John,
39
,
44
–45,
50
,
711
crime and criminal law: and civil society,
489
and common law,
439
and the federal judiciary,
418
and the Fifth Amendment,
70
and Marshall,
436
and slavery,
517
Crockett, Davy,
687
cruel and unusual punishment,
70
Cruelties of the Baltimore MOB
(exhibit),
355
Cullen, William,
725
cultural development: and the American environment,
43
–50
and the American Revolution,
544
,
552
–53,
554
,
557
–58,
560
,
570
and cultural independence,
735
–36
and diversity,
36
–43
and folk
beliefs,
48
,
600
–601,
727
–28
and the Louisiana Purchase,
370
,
372
,
373
–74
and slavery,
512
syncretic cultures,
512
,
600
–601
and western settlement,
546
–47
Cumberland,
361
Cumberland Road,
482
Curaçao,
534
Cushing, William,
411
customs duties,
134
,
191
,
193
,
650
,
665
,
684
Dallas, Alexander J.,
428
–29,
454
,
692
Dana, Edmund Trowbridge,
575
Danae
(Wertmüller),
573
Danton, Georges Jacques,
620
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
,
465
Darval
(Wood),
342
Davila, Enrico Caterino,
146
Dayton, Jonathan,
245
De Lolme, Jean Louis,
215
Dearborn, Henry,
674
,
679
–80,
685
The Death of General Warren at Bunker’s Hill
(Trumbull),
553
debt: assumption of state debts,
97
,
110
,
141
–43,
145
,
156
,
201
,
231
,
453
and the Confederation Congress,
15
and Findley,
218
and Hamilton,
153
and Jefferson-Hamilton conflict,
156
and military power,
263
and modern government,
149
–50
public debt,
93
,
95
–103,
140
–41,
278
,
298
–301,
672
and the War of 1812,
660
Declaration of Independence,
8
–9,
13
,
16
,
307
,
641
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen,
71
–72,
174
Declaratory Act,
673
Deep South,
511
,
520
,
523
,
524
–26,
606
Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States
(Adams),
82
,
213
–14
Dehon, Theodore,
570
Delaware: and bar standards,
454
and the federal judiciary,
412
and freed slaves,
538
and Madison’s reelection,
683
and religion,
583
and slavery,
518
,
522
and suffrage expansions,
302
and the War of 1812,
688
democracy and democratization: and accountability,
720
–21
and colonial assemblies,
16
–17
and the Constitution,
31
criticisms of,
322
,
407
democratization of politics,
712
–21
and demographic shifts,
3
–4
and the federal judiciary,
425
–32
and Jefferson-Madison relationship,
148
and judicial review,
450
and market economics,
322
and minority rights,
468
negative conceptions of,
718
–20
and public education,
469
–70
and public opinion,
312
and religion,
598
and the Republican Party,
312
–14
and slavery,
531
and suffrage expansion,
302
–3
and western settlement,
122
–23
Democratic Republicans: and Burr,
282
and class divisions,
350
–51,
353
and the Compensation Act,
718
–19
