| Adair, Douglass, 13 |
| Adams, John, 6, 32, 131, 146 |
| Affordable Care Act (2010), 205 |
| African-Americans, 119, 178–91, 235 |
| agency, 81–83, 96, 116, 121, 123 |
| agriculture. See farms, farmers and agriculture |
| Al Q aeda, 215 |
| ambition, 13, 18, 26, 28, 49, 52, 55–56, 69, 73, 76,
101, 110–11, 114, 132, 167, 206, 230, 232,
234, 269n68 |
| amendment, process of in the Constitution, 65,
221–23 |
| amendments to the Constitution, See
Constitution, U.S., amendments |
| American Revolution, 39, 41, 62, 68, 100, 167,
200, 208, 214 |
| Americans, nature of, 40–42, 53 |
| Anderson, Thornton, 12 |
| Annapolis Convention, 5, 57 |
| Anti-Federalists, 11, 32, 70, 157, 175, 214, 227–28 |
| appointments, executive and judicial, 3, 50–51, 99,
106, 116, 124, 130, 139–40, 145, 209, 285n135 |
| army, 206–9, 224 |
| Arthur, Chester Alan, 147 |
| Articles of Confederation, 19, 25, 27, 30, 36,
40–41, 58, 61–63, 121, 150, 164, 173, 193,
218, 220–21, 232 |
| assembly, freedom of, 158 |
| attainder, 155, 287n62 |
| authority and power, national government,
15–17, 19, 55, 57, 59–60, 64, 69, 73, 81, 164,
176, 224, 232, 289n28 | ambiguous division of national and state
authority, 163, 204, 206, 214, 224 | | difficulty of using, 233–34 | | economic, 192–205, 231 | | elastic, 173–74 | | enumerated powers, 163–64, 172–73, 176 | | incremental reforms, 69, 71–72, 76, 99, 69,
272n29 | | link to Congressional apportionment,
60, 178 | | military, 206–14 | | need to strengthen, 8, 63, 69, 74, 145, 178 | | opportunity to strengthen, 36 | | redistribution, constraints on, 194, 197–98 | | regulation, expansion of, 205 | | threat to small and economically vulnerable
states, 68 | | use of force against a state, 64–65, 72, 165,
169, 209, 238 |
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| authority and power, state government, 163, 166,
176, 190, 192, 206, 231–32 | ambiguous division of national and state,
163, 171–73, 204, 206, 214,
224, 232 | | prohibited powers, 173, 194–95, 198–200 | | states retain “numerous and indefinite”
powers, 176 |
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