This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, April 10, 2000)
 | | Compromise and the Constitution:
The Political Thought of Henry Clay
by Kimberly C. Shankman |
Lexington Books
128 pages, January 1999
Hardcover, 45.00
ISBN: 073910036X
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
This is one of the best books on the political thought of Henry Clay.
Shankman argues that Clay's career as a whole demonstrates a consistent
commitment to an ideal of republican statecraft, resting on a foundation
of limited executive power, a strong and highly developed economy, and
political partries organized in support of limited yet clear policy
programs, and driven by legislative leadership dedicated to forging
consensus through compromise. Shankman argues that while Clay's
approach is clearly consistent with the Federalist conception of
ordinary constitutional statesmanship, Clay's inability to deal
adequately with the problem of slavery reveals that it was insufficient
for coming to grips with the extraordinary challenges that can beset a
republic.
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Henry Clay and the Study of Politics
- Executive Power
- “The American System”
- Political Parties
- Slavery
- Bibliography
- Index
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