American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War / Christian G. Fritz.
2008
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American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War / Christian G. Fritz.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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1 online resource (xi, 427 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.
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Prologue
The people's sovereignty in the states
Revolutionary constitutionalism
Grassroots self-government : America's early determinist movements
Revolutionary tensions : "friends of government" confront "the Regulators" in Massachusetts
The sovereign behind the Federal Constitution
The Federal Constitution and the effort to constrain the people
Testing the constitutionalism of 1787 : the whiskey "rebellion" in Pennsylvania
Federal sovereignty : competing views of the Federal Constitution
The struggle over a constitutional middle ground
The collective sovereign persists : the people's constitution in Rhode Island
Epilogue.
The people's sovereignty in the states
Revolutionary constitutionalism
Grassroots self-government : America's early determinist movements
Revolutionary tensions : "friends of government" confront "the Regulators" in Massachusetts
The sovereign behind the Federal Constitution
The Federal Constitution and the effort to constrain the people
Testing the constitutionalism of 1787 : the whiskey "rebellion" in Pennsylvania
Federal sovereignty : competing views of the Federal Constitution
The struggle over a constitutional middle ground
The collective sovereign persists : the people's constitution in Rhode Island
Epilogue.
Summary
American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 Federal constitutional convention. American Sovereigns examines the idea that after the American Revolution, a collectivity - the people - would rule as the sovereign. Heated political controversies within the states and at the national level over what it meant that the people were the sovereign and how that collective sovereign could express its will were not resolved in 1776, in 1787, or prior to the Civil War. The idea of the people as the sovereign both unified and divided Americans in thinking about government and the basis of the Union. Today's constitutionalism is not a natural inheritance, but the product of choices Americans made between shifting understandings about themselves as a collective sovereign.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
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9780511800580 ebook
9780521881883 (hardback)
9780521125604 (paperback)
9780521881883 (hardback)
9780521125604 (paperback)
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