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A Constitutional History of the American People : 1776-1850 / Francis Newton Thorpe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thorpe, Francis Newton, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1006 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Brothers, 1898.
- Summary:
- This work contains the evidence of changes of progress in the ideas and opinions which the American people have held respecting the principles, the organization, and the administration of their civil institutions. It is a record of the evolution of government since the Revolution.
- Contents:
- V. 1. The state
- The form of democracy in the eighteenth century
- The organization of government in the states
- Transition to independent states
- The constitutional elements
- The first struggle for sovereignty
- The political estate at the opening of the nineteenth century
- The first migration west
- From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi
- Federal relations, Missouri
- Beyond the Mississippi
- A people without a country
- Democracy in a Gulf state, 1845 Louisiana
- The basis of representation
- Elements of discord in the commonwealth. V. 2. Democracy in a border state, 1849 Kentucky
- Changes in the judicial system
- The exclusion of clergymen from civil office
- Legislative apportionment
- The rights of property
- Free states and slave states contrasted
- Democracy in a northern state, 1850 Michigan
- The creation and regulation of corporations
- The rights and privileges of citizens
- Democracy in a western state, 1850 California
- California and the Union
- The dictates of free labor
- A half-century of constitutional changes
- Corporations, finance, local government, and education
- The courts, the people, social and civil progress.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Harper & Brothers, viewed August 8, 2023).
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