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American sovereigns :

052112560X

0521881889

9780521125604

9780521881883

b751828

American sovereigns :

[Book]

the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War /

Christian G. Fritz.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

©2008.

xi, 427 pages ;

24 cm

Cambridge studies on the American Constitution

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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"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."--Jacket.

American Sovereigns is a path-breaking interpretation of America's political history and constitutionalism that explores how Americans struggled over the idea that the people would rule as the sovereign after the American Revolution. National and state debates about government action, law, and the people's political powers reveal how Americans sought to understand how a collective sovereign-the people-could both play the role as the ruler and yet be ruled by governments of their own choosing.

Constituent power-- United States-- History.

Constitutional history-- United States.

Federal government-- United States-- History.

People (Constitutional law)-- United States-- History.

States' rights (American politics)-- History.

Constituent power-- United States-- History.

Constituent power.

Constitutional history-- United States.

Constitutional history.

Federal government-- United States-- History.

Federal government.

People (Constitutional law)

People (Constitutional law)-- United States-- History.

States' rights (American politics)

States' rights (American politics)-- History.

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