| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Canada and the United States

Max M. Edling. A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 333. $35.00.

Twentieth-century studies of the making of the U.S. Constitution commonly identified its sources and the conflict over its adoption with a clash between competing economic interests or an effort by a troubled national elite to put a brake on populistic forces in the revolutionary states, restore direction of the nation by a "better sort" of men, and safeguard private rights and long-term public needs against majority excesses. As the century turned, however, Peter Onuf, Roger Brown, David Hendrickson, Karl Walling, and other scholars called for a renewed attention to the problems of the union as a union. Max M. Edling's book is a valuable addition to this recent work, building on the past three decades' studies of the eighteenth-century British state and its internal critics to construct a novel framework for this story.

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