Gold David M. An Exemplary Whig: Edward Kent and the Whig Disposition in American Politics and Law 9780739172728

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Автор: Gold David M.
Название: An Exemplary Whig: Edward Kent and the Whig Disposition in American Politics and Law
ISBN: 9780739172728
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Политические лидеры и политическое руководство

ISBN-10: 0739172727
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 255
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 06.07.2012
Язык: English
Размер: 22.86 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: Edward kent and the whig disposition in american politics and law
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Historians have paid surprisingly little attention to state-level political leaders and judges. Edward Kent (1802-77) was both. He served three terms as a state legislator, two as mayor of Bangor, two as governor, and two as a judge of the state supreme court. He represented Maine in the negotiations that resolved the long-running northeastern border dispute between the United States and Great Britain and served for four years as the American consul in Rio de Janeiro. The foremost Whig in Maine state politics and later a Republican judge, Kent articulated classic Whig political views and carried them forward into his Whig-Republican jurisprudence. In examining Kents career as Maines quintessential Whig, An Exemplary Whig reveals his characteristically conservative Whig outlook, including an aversion toward disorder and a deep respect for law, for existing institutions, and for the wisdom of experience. Kent brought his conservative disposition into the Republican Party. He had no use for radical abolitionism, preferring moderation and compromise to measures that endangered social order or the integrity of the Union. Kent saw the slave power, not abolitionism, as the disrupter of the Union, and he urged the fusion of all antislavery elements into a new Republican party. In 1859, Maines Republican governor appointed Kent to the state supreme court. During his fourteen-year tenure, Kent adopted a Whiggish jurisprudence, pragmatic and commonsensical, and displayed a reverence for the common law and a distrust of theoretic speculation. After his retirement, he chaired a constitutional revision commission, admonishing his fellow commissioners to bear in mind the practical wisdom that kept dangerous innovation in check. As a politician during the Jacksonian era, Kent exemplified Whig leadership at the local and state levels. In his jurisprudence, he carried the Whig persuasion into the Republican ascendancy and the beginnings of the Gilded Age.

An Exemplary Whig: Edward Kent and the Whig Disposition in American Politics and Law, Gold David M.