04656nam 2200961Ia 450 991097398780332120200520144314.097866120012469780511474811051147481497811071851661107185165978128200124412820012489780511479588051147958197805114803860511480385978051147717105114771719780511475733051147573X97805118005800511800584978051147869705114786902027/heb07867(CKB)1000000000702610(EBL)412734(OCoLC)476234281(SSID)ssj0000102444(PQKBManifestationID)11133152(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102444(PQKBWorkID)10050406(PQKB)10781735(UkCbUP)CR9780511800580(Au-PeEL)EBL412734(CaPaEBR)ebr10279734(CaONFJC)MIL200124(MiAaPQ)EBC412734(dli)HEB07867(MiU)KOHA0000000000000000002832(PPN)23496815X(EXLCZ)99100000000070261020070405d2008 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerican sovereigns the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War /Christian G. Fritz1st ed.Oxford [England] ;New York Cambridge University Pressc20081 online resource (xi, 427 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies on the American ConstitutionTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).9780521125604 052112560X 9780521881883 0521881889 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.Constituent powerUnited StatesHistoryPeople (Constitutional law)United StatesHistoryStates' rights (American politics)HistoryFederal governmentUnited StatesHistoryConstitutional historyUnited StatesConstituent powerHistory.People (Constitutional law)History.States' rights (American politics)History.Federal governmentHistory.Constitutional history342.7302/9Fritz Christian G.1953-791007MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973987803321American sovereigns1767257UNINA