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The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and

Author note: Hans Joas (Editor), Barbro Klein (Editor)
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Festschrift for Björn Wittrock - at the celebration of his sixty fifth Birthday

More than probably anyone else on the planet, the Swedish social scientist Bjorn Wittrock has contributed - either at the highbrow and institutional point - to creating a really worldwide technological know-how attainable. This e-book is dedicated to an appreciation of his contributions.

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3 Federalist hopes failed principally because the reformers were out of tune with the general political mood in the post-Revolutionary United States. Apart from the Federalists themselves, nobody really wanted a centralized regime able to regulate the economy and society. The majority wished to retain state sovereignty and local autonomy. Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, made himself their spokesperson. In the standard account, his election to the presidency—the so-called Revolution of 1800—constitutes one of the most important breaks in early American history.

Jeffersonian Legacies (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993), 370-91; Bradford Perkins, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations I: The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776–1865 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995); Francis Paul Prucha, The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians, 2 vols. the strange hybrid of the early american state 29 Although the nineteenth-century national government was small compared to contemporary European great powers, and although the United States was organized as a fundamentally liberal polity, the United States was a political organization that habitually employed state-organized and -directed violence of quite brutal dimensions against people outside the nation’s pale.

The President and House of Representatives were appointed through popular election and not by the state governments. Congress legislated directly on the citizens and not on the states, and the administrative agencies of the national government ensured the implementation of federal legislation. This was what Madison had in mind when he said that the fundamental difference between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution was that the latter provided for “a more effectual mode” of administration.

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