American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
c2008
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| Series: | Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
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Table of Contents:
- 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