Democratic Beginnings : Founding the Western States /

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State constitutions are blueprints for government institutions, declarations of collective identity, statements of principle, values, and goals. It naturally follows, and this book demonstrates, that the founding documents and the conventions that produced them reflect the emerging dynamics of Ameri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bridges, Amy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
State governments.
Politics and government.
Democracy.
Constitutional history.
Constitutional conventions.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Constitutional conventions > West (U.S.) > History.
Constitutional history > West (U.S.)
State governments > West (U.S.)
Democracy > West (U.S.)
West United States.
West (U.S.) > Politics and government.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Upon the shores of an unknown sea
  • Frontier foundings
  • Managing the periphery
  • Progressive settlements
  • Creating the western states.

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