Booktopia - American Sovereigns : The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War, Christian G. Fritz, 9780521125604

American Sovereigns : The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War

By: Christian G. Fritz

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ISBN: 9780521125604

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Published: June 2009

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1. Prologue; Part I. The Peoples Sovereignty in the States: 2. Revolutionary constitutionalism; 3. Grass-roots self-government: Americas 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 peoples constitution in Rhode Island; 9. Epilogue.