LEADER 04320nam 22008052 450 001 9910782685503321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a0-511-47481-4 010 $a1-107-18516-5 010 $a1-282-00124-8 010 $a0-511-47958-1 010 $a9786612001246 010 $a0-511-48038-5 010 $a0-511-47717-1 010 $a0-511-47573-X 010 $a0-511-80058-4 010 $a0-511-47869-0 024 7 $a2027/heb07867 035 $a(CKB)1000000000702610 035 $a(EBL)412734 035 $a(OCoLC)476234281 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102444 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133152 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102444 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10050406 035 $a(PQKB)10781735 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511800580 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL412734 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10279734 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL200124 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC412734 035 $a(dli)HEB07867 035 $a(MiU)KOHA0000000000000000002832 035 $a(PPN)23496815X 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000702610 100 $a20101021d2008|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican sovereigns $ethe people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War /$fChristian G. Fritz$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 427 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies on the American Constitution 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-12560-X 311 $a0-521-88188-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue -- 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. 330 $aAmerican Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 Federal constitutional convention. American Sovereigns examines the idea that after the American Revolution, a collectivity - the people - would rule as the sovereign. Heated political controversies within the states and at the national level over what it meant that the people were the sovereign and how that collective sovereign could express its will were not resolved in 1776, in 1787, or prior to the Civil War. The idea of the people as the sovereign both unified and divided Americans in thinking about government and the basis of the Union. Today's constitutionalism is not a natural inheritance, but the product of choices Americans made between shifting understandings about themselves as a collective sovereign. 410 0$aCambridge studies on the American Constitution. 606 $aConstituent power$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPeople (Constitutional law)$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aStates' rights (American politics)$xHistory 606 $aFederal government$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aConstitutional history$zUnited States 615 0$aConstituent power$xHistory. 615 0$aPeople (Constitutional law)$xHistory. 615 0$aStates' rights (American politics)$xHistory. 615 0$aFederal government$xHistory. 615 0$aConstitutional history 676 $a342.7302/9 700 $aFritz$b Christian G.$f1953-$0791007 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782685503321 996 $aAmerican sovereigns$91767257 997 $aUNINA