American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War /

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Main Author: Fritz, Christian G., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008
Series:Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
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245 1 0 |a American sovereigns :  |b the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War /  |c Christian G. Fritz 
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300 |a xi, 427 p. ;  |c 24 cm 
440 0 |a Cambridge studies on the American Constitution 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 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 
650 0 |a Constituent power  |z United States  |x History 
650 0 |a People (Constitutional law)  |z United States  |x History 
650 0 |a States' rights (American politics)  |x History 
650 0 |a Federal government  |z United States  |x History 
650 0 |a Constitutional history  |z United States 
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