Conceived in Liberty: The Struggle to Define the New Republic, 1789-1793 - Paperbackby Lance Banning (Author) Within three years of the inauguration of the Constitution, its greatest champions found themselves irreparably divided over what that Constitution meant and how to shape the Union it had been created to perfect. Within a decade, the division at the heights of national politics had spread into a full scale party war, the first, the most ferocious, and perhaps the most instructive in all of American history. Never since have