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American sovereigns：the people and america's constitutional tradition before the Civil War

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Main Authors: Fritz Christian G., 1953-
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford [England] New York
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
Subjects:
People (Constitutional law) > United States > History.
States' rights (American politics) > History.
Federal government > United States > History.
Constitutional history > United States
Constituent power > United States > History.
Carrier Form: xi, 427 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780521881883 (hardback)
0521881889 (hardback)
9780521125604 (paper)
052112560X (paper)
Call Number: D971.21-09 /F919
Contents: 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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