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American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War /
American 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. Ame...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | American 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 427 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511480386 0511480385 0521881889 9780521881883 9780521125604 052112560X 9780511800580 0511800584 1107185165 9781107185166 1282001248 9781282001244 0511479581 9780511479588 9786612001246 6612001240 0511477171 9780511477171 0511478690 9780511478697 |