Fritz, Christian G.
American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War Christian G. Fritz. - Oxford [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008. - xi, 427 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies on the American Constitution .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- The people's sovereignty in the states -- Revolutionary constitutionalism -- Grass-roots 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.
9780521881883 (hardback) 9780521125604 (paper)
2007013827
Constituent power--History--United States
People (Constitutional law)
States' rights (American politics)
Federal government
Constitutional history
KF4881 / .F75 2008
342.730
American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War Christian G. Fritz. - Oxford [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008. - xi, 427 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies on the American Constitution .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- The people's sovereignty in the states -- Revolutionary constitutionalism -- Grass-roots 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.
9780521881883 (hardback) 9780521125604 (paper)
2007013827
Constituent power--History--United States
People (Constitutional law)
States' rights (American politics)
Federal government
Constitutional history
KF4881 / .F75 2008
342.730