The Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775-1787

Contents

Contents List of Maps ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii PART ONE THE EARLY AMERICAN STATE SYSTEM 1 Congress and the States: Conflict Resolution in the New Nation 3 2 From Colony to Territory: Changing Concepts of Statehood 21 PART TWO STATE-MAKING 3 State and Citizen: Settlers Against the Pennsylvania Charter 49 4 Virginia and the West 75 5 An Unbounded State: New York, Vermont, and the Western Lands 103 6 The New State of Vermont: Revolution Within a Revolution 127 vii viii Contents PART THREE ORIGINS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC 7 New States and the New Nation: American Territorial Policy in the "Critical Period" 149 8 Constitutional Crisis 1 73 9 Making a "Miracle": The Reconstitutionof American Politics 186 Notes 211 Index 275 ...