1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00107095

Autore

XIE Fucheng

Titolo

Dian mian hua jiai tu shuo / Xie Fucheng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taibei, : Gong wen shu, 1968

Descrizione fisica

1 v. ; 19 cm

Classificazione

T.C.A

Soggetti

CINA - Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Cinese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973987803321

Autore

Fritz Christian G. <1953->

Titolo

American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War / / Christian G. Fritz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612001246

9780511474811

0511474814

9781107185166

1107185165

9781282001244

1282001248

9780511479588

0511479581

9780511480386

0511480385

9780511477171

0511477171

9780511475733

051147573X

9780511800580

0511800584

9780511478697

0511478690

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 427 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies on the American Constitution



Disciplina

342.7302/9

Soggetti

Constituent power - United States - History

People (Constitutional law) - United States - History

States' rights (American politics) - History

Federal government - United States - History

Constitutional history - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- The people's sovereignty in the states -- Revolutionary constitutionalism -- Grassroots 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.