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American sovereigns : the people and America's constitutional tradition before the Civil War / Christian G. Fritz.
LIBRA KF4881 .F75 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fritz, Christian G., 1953-
- Series:
- Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constituent power--United States--History.
- Constituent power.
- People (Constitutional law)--United States--History.
- People (Constitutional law).
- States' rights (American politics).
- History.
- United States.
- States' rights (American politics)--United States--History.
- Federal government--United States--History.
- Federal government.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 427 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- 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".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-410) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521881883
- 0521881889
- OCLC:
- 122973753
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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