TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riker, William H
TI  - The strategy of rhetoric: Campaingning for the American Constitution 
AV  - JK 116 R572s 1996 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Yale University Press
N2  - The core of campainging : Rhetoric and heresthetic, 3. -- The rhetoric of the ratification campaigns, 15. -- Shaping the alternatives : The proposed constitution of 1787, 15. -- Data and methods for the study of campaigns, 23. -- Campaign themes, 32. -- The utility of negative themes, 49. -- Rhetorical interaction in the campaigns, 75. -- General principles of rhetorical interaction, 99. -- Toward a theory of rhetoric in campaigns, 99. -- Evidence about dominance and dispersion, 110. -- The heresthetic of the ratification campaigns, 129. -- The agenda for ratification, 129. -- Nationalist domination in the congresses for the 1780s, 139. -- Nationalist domination of the selection of delegates to the philadelhia convention, 147. -- The nationalist strategy for ratification, 163. --  Massachusetts : The federalist coalition expands, 183. -- The federalists ragain momentum, 209. --  Virginia and the failure of antifederalism, 220. -- New York : Federalists outflank antifederalists, 229. -- Forging the final constitution, 241. -- Rhetoric and heresthetic, 253
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