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Book Review


The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois. By Gerald Leonard. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii, 328 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2744-4.)
In this provocative book Gerald Leonard proposes a wholesale reconceptualization of the rise of pro-party thought in Jacksonian America. Taking dead aim at the long-standing synthesis that holds that political parties were functions of the era's social cleavages and substantive policy disputes, Leonard focuses on debates over the meaning of popular sovereignty and the constitutional procedures for achieving it. Using Illinois as his case and relying mainly on the public rhetoric of party organizers and detractors, he traces a fitful process in which "partyists" tentatively developed and eventually vigorously defended innovations such as nominating conventions and binding party tickets. . . .
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