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United States -- Continental Congress --- United States -- Politics and government

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Despite a necessary preoccupation with the Revolutionary struggle, America's Continental Congress succeeded in establishing itself as a governing body with national--and international--authority. How the Congress acquired and maintained this power and how the delegates sought to resolve the complex theoretical problems that arose in forming a federal government are the issues confronted in Jack N. Rakove's searching reappraisal of Revolution-era politics. Avoiding the tendency to interpret the decisions of the Congress in terms of competing factions or conflicting ideologies, Rakove opts for a more pragmatic view. He reconstructs the political climate of the Revolutionary period, mapping out both the immediate problems confronting the Congress and the available alternatives as perceived by the delegates. He recreates a landscape littered with unfamiliar issues, intractable problems, unattractive choices, and partial solutions, all of which influenced congressional decisions on matters as prosaic as military logistics or as abstract as the definition of federalism.

United States. --- United States --- Politics and government --- Continental Congress (United States) --- History of the Americas

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United States -- Continental Congress -- Poetry --- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry

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Legislators --- Businesspeople --- Biography. --- -Business people --- Business persons --- Businesspersons --- Entrepreneurs --- Professional employees --- Biography --- Duer, William --- United States. Continental Congress --- -Biography --- -Biography. --- Duer, William, --- United States. --- Continental Congress (United States) --- Legislators - United States - Biography. --- Businesspeople - United States - Biography.

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United States -- Continental Congress --- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789 --- United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783