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"Founding-era politics" describes books that explore the political ideas, institutions, actors, and conflicts surrounding a nation's formative decades—most commonly the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the United States (roughly the 1760s–1820s). This category includes studies of revolutionary debate and ideology, constitutional framing and ratification, the emergence of parties and partisan culture, state and federal institutional development, early elections and public opinion, diplomacy and nation-building, and contentious issues such as slavery, rights, and federalism. It encompasses biographies, intellectual and legal histories, archival document collections, and interpretive scholarship that illuminate how political language, practice, and power were created and contested at the moment of founding.

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