Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sail

Casto examines the personalities and actions of the leading players-Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton, secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, President George Washington, Representative James Madison, and Genet-but his analysis of maritime prize actions and the constitutional issues they brought i...

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Published in:Journal of Southern History 2008, Vol.74 (2), p.440-441
Main Author: Swanson, Carl E.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
American history
Constitutional law
Foreign policy
French language
Madison, James (1751-1836)
Nonfiction
Politics
Supreme Court decisions
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Summary:Casto examines the personalities and actions of the leading players-Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton, secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, President George Washington, Representative James Madison, and Genet-but his analysis of maritime prize actions and the constitutional issues they brought into sharp relief is the strength of his book: The French maritime onslaught wrenched American neutrality from the realm of theory to the arena of political crisis. Surprisingly, this chapter's most important lessons appear to come from Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson and not from Hamilton et al., as Casto relies more on Jackson's concurring opinion in the so-called Steel Seizure Case (Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer [1952]) than he does on the Founders' writings.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893
DOI:10.2307/27650160