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American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War: Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution

Autor Christian G. Fritz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 apr 2009
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. American Sovereigns examines the idea that after the American Revolution, a collectivity - the people - would rule as the sovereign. Heated political controversies within the states and at the national level over what it meant that the people were the sovereign and how that collective sovereign could express its will were not resolved in 1776, in 1787, or prior to the Civil War. The idea of the people as the sovereign both unified and divided Americans in thinking about government and the basis of the Union. Today's constitutionalism is not a natural inheritance, but the product of choices Americans made between shifting understandings about themselves as a collective sovereign.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521125604
ISBN-10: 052112560X
Pagini: 440
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Prologue; Part I. The People's Sovereignty in the States: 2. Revolutionary constitutionalism; 3. Grass-roots self-government: America's early determinist movements; 4. Revolutionary tensions: 'friends of government' confront 'the regulators' in Massachusetts; Part II. The Sovereign Behind the Federal Constitution: 5. The federal constitution and the effort to constrain the people; 6. Testing the constitutionalism of 1787: the Whiskey 'Rebellion' in Pennsylvania; 7. Federal sovereignty: competing views of the federal constitution; Part III. The Struggle over a Constitutional Middle Ground: 8. The collective sovereign persists: the people's constitution in Rhode Island; 9. Epilogue.

Recenzii

'In one of the most significant contributions to rethinking the nature and function of constitutionalism that this reviewer has encountered in many years, promising historian-lawyer Fritz (University of New Mexico) has taken a new look at the role of popular sovereignty in conflicts over the nature of constitutionalism in the US … A highly accessible, nicely produced, and beautifully researched and written book that is a must read for historians and teachers of public law.' S. N. Katz, Princeton University

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How the American people could both be the ruler and the ruled led to choices that explain the current American constitutionalism.