| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

The Federal Principle in American Politics, 1790-1833. By Andrew C. Lenner. (Lanham: Madison House, 2001. xiv, 223 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-7425-2070-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7425-2071-4.)

Andrew C. Lenner believes that Jeffersonian constitutionalism has been misrepresented and oversimplified by historians. In this detailed study of the federal principle in American politics, Lenner seeks to vindicate Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and their political heirs as having been neither dogmatic and inflexible in belittling federal power nor narrowly opportunistic in frustrating Federalist policies, but rather 'principled and consistent' in their resistance to federal incursions into the domestic and internal affairs of the states. The Jeffersonians' frequent recourse to federal power to advance their own policies was not (Lenner suggests) simple hypocrisy, but rather the product of a coherent constitutional philosophy that distinguished domestic (state) concerns from international (federal) affairs. . . .

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