American Sovereigns The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War

Name: American Sovereigns The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780521125604

ISBN-10: 052112560X

ISBN-13: 9780521125604

Edition: 2009

Authors: Christian G. Fritz

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Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments



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


Key to Abbreviations


Notes


Selected Short Titles


Credits


Index