American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War / Christian G. Fritz.
- Fritz, Christian G., 1953-
- Date:
- [2008], ©2008
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Publication/Creation
Oxford, [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2008], ©2008.
Physical description
xi, 427 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Contents
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Cambridge studies on the American Constitution]) Mode of access: Intranet.