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1 online resource (xi, 427 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
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Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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USA. Verfassung 1787. |
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Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld. |
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Constituent power -- United States -- History.
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Constituent power. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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People (Constitutional law) -- United States -- History.
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People (Constitutional law) |
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States' rights (American politics) -- History.
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States' rights (American politics) |
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Federal government -- United States -- History.
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Federal government. |
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Constitutional history -- United States.
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Constitutional history. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fritz, Christian G., 1953- American sovereigns. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2008 9780521881883 0521881889 (DLC) 2007013827 (OCoLC)122973753 |
| ISBN |
9780511480386 (electronic book) |
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0511480385 (electronic book) |
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0521881889 (hardback) |
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9780521881883 (hardback) |
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9780521125604 (paper) |
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052112560X (paper) |
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9780511800580 (ebook) |
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0511800584 (ebook) |
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9780521881883 (hardback) |
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