“The Propriety of a Vigorous Government:” State Formation in New York, 1740-1795
2022
Hochschulschrift
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In the half-century following the American Revolution, the state governments emerged as the primary agent of social, economic, and political change and development in the United States. In New York in particular, the “state” became a powerful force of expansive and interventionist policies, endowed with broad regulatory authority over civil society. Yet its predecessor, the “colonial state” was unequivocally weak and proved incapable of effective governance. The colonial administration relied on a thin network of local magistrates to govern, but these officials – “embedded” in locality – regularly placed the priorities of their own neighborhoods over the priorities of the state. The Revolutionary War, however, provided an opportunity to address the problems of colonial governance, most notably by subordinating the recalcitrant local magistrates to the state, which established the framework for a “vigorous Government” that emerged in the period of the Early Republic.
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“The Propriety of a Vigorous Government:” State Formation in New York, 1740-1795
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Streifeneder, Dillon Luke |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
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