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Max Edling on A Union, Not a Nation-State: The Constitution as a Federal Treaty 

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Continuing our Fall 2020 Zoom Colloquium Series, King’s College London Reader in Early American History Max Edling will present on his forthcoming (November 2020) Oxford University Press book, Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the U.S. Constitution, which follows recent trends in historical scholarship in examining the international history of the creation of the U.S. Constitution (see book description below).
Book Description
For most of the twentieth century, the American founding has been presented as a struggle between social classes over issues arising primarily within, rather than outside, the United States. But in recent years, new scholarship has instead turned to the international history of the American union to interpret both the causes and the consequences of the U.S. Constitution. In his new book, Perfecting the Union, Max Edling argues that the Constitution was created to defend U.S. territorial integrity and the national interest from competitors in the western borderlands and on the Atlantic Ocean, and to defuse inter-state tension within the union. By replacing the defunct Articles of Confederation, the Constitution profoundly transformed the structure of the American union by making the national government more effective. But it did not transform the fundamental purpose of the union, which remained a political organization designed to manage inter-state and international relations. And in contrast to what many scholars claim, it was never meant to eclipse the state governments. The Constitution created a national government but did not significantly extend its remit. The result was a dual structure of government, in which the federal government and the states were both essential to the people’s welfare. Getting the story about the Constitution straight matters because it makes possible a broader assessment of the American founding as both a transformative event, aiming at territorial and economic expansion, and as a conservative event, aiming at the preservation of key elements of the colonial socio-political order.
Max M. Edling is Reader in Early American History at King’s College, London. He is the author of A Revolution in Favor of Government: The Origin of the US Constitution and the Making of the American State and of A Hercules in the Cradle: War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867.

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