Article: Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time.(Book Review)

Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time. By David J. Siemers. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xx, 292. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8047-5103-X; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8047-4106-9.)

In Ratifying the Republic, David J. Siemers, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, examines the interactions between Antifederalists and Federalists in "constitutional time," that is, during the years after 1789 when the Constitution was implemented. Changing the context from the ratification debate, argues Siemers, sheds new light on both groups. During the 1790s, the ...

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