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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bridges, Amy (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 American democracy in the nineteenth century. Nowhere is this more clear, Amy Bridges tells us in Democratic Beginnings, than in the American West. A close study of the constitutional conventions that founded eleven Western states, and of the constitutions they wrote, Democratic Beginnings traces the arc.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780700621491

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