American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War / Christian G. Fritz.
Fritz, Christian G., 1953-
2008
KF4881 .F75 2008 (Mapit)
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Title American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War / Christian G. Fritz.
Author Fritz, Christian G., 1953-
ISBN 9780521881883
0521881889
Publication Details Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008.
Language English
Description xi, 427 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number KF4881 .F75 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 342.7302/9
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.
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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.

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