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American sovereigns : the people and America's constitutional tradition before the Civil War
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American sovereigns : the people and America's constitutional tradition before the Civil War / Christian G. Fritz.
ISBN
9780521881883 (hardback)
0521881889 (hardback)
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Physical Description
xi, 427 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 11, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-410) 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".
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