American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War Christian G. Fritz.
By: Fritz, Christian G
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BookSeries: Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008Description: xi, 427 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521881883 (hardback); 9780521125604 (paper).Subject(s): Constituent power -- United States -- History | People (Constitutional law) | States' rights (American politics) | Federal government | Constitutional historyDDC classification: 342.730 Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Book review (H-Net)
Contents:
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.
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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.
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