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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fritz, Christian G., 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.
Temas:
USA > The United States Constitution > 1787
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
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.
Statutes.
Constitution and Bylaws
Pouvoir constituant > États-Unis > Histoire.
Peuple > États-Unis > Histoire.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
Statuts.
statutes.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Statutes
Constituent power
Constitutional history
Federal government
People (Constitutional law)
States' rights (American politics)
Volkssouveränität
Staatsrecht
Verfassungsrecht
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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