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Performing Democracy: Capital Consequence & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical background of general public debates about offense, violence, and capital punishment in the us. This examination commences in 1683, when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured servants of Philadelphia, and proceeds until 1807, when the Federalists searched for to impose law-and-order after the New Republic. This quantity offers a lively historical summary of how crime, violence, and capital punishment influenced the settling of the New World, the North american Trend, and the frantic post-war political scrambling to establish norms that could govern the new republic. By presenting a macro-historical analysis, and by filling the arguments with voices from different political camps and communicative styles, Hartnett provides readers with fresh perspectives for understanding the centrality of general public debates about capital punishment to the history of American democracy.
