American Sovereigns : the People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War.

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How the American people could both be the ruler and the ruled led to choices that explain our current constitutionalism.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fritz, Christian G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Colección:Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.
Temas:
Constituent power > United States > History.
People (Constitutional law) > United States > History.
States' rights (American politics) > History.
Federal government > United States > History.
Constitutional history > United States.
Pouvoir constituant > États-Unis > Histoire.
Peuple > États-Unis > Histoire.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
Constituent power
Constitutional history
Federal government
People (Constitutional law)
States' rights (American politics)
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Prologue; PART ONE The People's Sovereignty in the States; 2 Revolutionary Constitutionalism; 3 Grassroots Self-Government: America's Early Determinist Movements; 4 Revolutionary Tensions: "Friends of Government" Confront "The Regulators" in Massachusetts; PART TWO The Sovereign Behind the Federal Constitution; 5 The Federal Constitution and the Effort to Constrain the People; 6 Testing the Constitutionalism of 1787: The Whiskey "Rebellion" in Pennsylvania.

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