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American Sovereigns : The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War / Christian G. Fritz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fritz, Christian G., 1953-
- Series:
- Cambridge books online.
- 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)--History.
- Federal government--United States--History.
- Federal government.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (440 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 Prologue 1
- Part 1 The People's Sovereignty in the States 9
- 2 Revolutionary Constitutionalism 11
- 3 Grassroots Self-Government: America's Early Determinist Movements 47
- 4 Revolutionary Tensions: "Friends of Government" Confront "The Regulators" in Massachusetts 80
- Part 2 The Sovereign Behind The Federal Constitution 117
- 5 The Federal Constitution and the Effort to Constrain the People 119
- 6 Testing the Constitutionalism of 1787: The Whiskey "Rebellion" in Pennsylvania 153
- 7 Federal Sovereignty: Competing Views of the Federal Constitution 190
- Part 3 The Struggle Over a Constitutional Middle Ground 235
- 8 The Collective Sovereign Persists: The People's Constitution in Rhode Island 246
- 9 Epilogue 277.
- Notes:
- Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2012).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511800580
- 9780521881883
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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