American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War /
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. Ame...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Язык: | английский |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2008.
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| Серии: | Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.
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| Online-ссылка: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=269218 |
Оглавление:
- 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.