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: 9780521881883

ISBN-10: 0521881889

ISBN-13: 9780521881883

Edition: 2008

Authors: Christian G. Fritz

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American Sovereigns 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. It 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 a national level over what it meant for the people to be the sovereign, and how that collective sovereign could express its will, were not resolved 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…

Book details

List price: $111.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/29/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 440
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.738
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