American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil WarCambridge University Press, 29. 10. 2007. 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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... Declaration of Independence. Ideas of a collective sovereign were expounded and acted upon in the course of winning the Revolution. However, once the Revolution and the new American governments were justified by the authority of the ...
... Declaration of Independence. Ideas of a collective sovereign were expounded and acted upon in the course of winning the Revolution. However, once the Revolution and the new American governments were justified by the authority of the ...
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... declaration of Independ[e]nce.” John Adams, drafter of the preamble, thought its passage “the most important” vote “ever... taken in America.” Years later he regarded it “a decisive Event” in the revolutionary struggle. Adams was ...
... declaration of Independ[e]nce.” John Adams, drafter of the preamble, thought its passage “the most important” vote “ever... taken in America.” Years later he regarded it “a decisive Event” in the revolutionary struggle. Adams was ...
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... Declaration of Independence, natural law taught that the people were “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” and could alter or abolish government “destructive” of those rights. For Thomas Jefferson the Declaration ...
... Declaration of Independence, natural law taught that the people were “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” and could alter or abolish government “destructive” of those rights. For Thomas Jefferson the Declaration ...
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... Declaration of Independence sought to end his sovereign reign over the colonies because he had violated the original constitutional contract.9 American Independence was justified by the period's conventional theories about the people's ...
... Declaration of Independence sought to end his sovereign reign over the colonies because he had violated the original constitutional contract.9 American Independence was justified by the period's conventional theories about the people's ...
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... Declaration of Independence was unnecessary because the people were “establishing their Governments... as fast as they can.”21 Finding that the people as the new sovereign could give life to new governments through written constitutions ...
... Declaration of Independence was unnecessary because the people were “establishing their Governments... as fast as they can.”21 Finding that the people as the new sovereign could give life to new governments through written constitutions ...
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PART TWO The Sovereign Behind the Federal Constitution | 117 |
PART THREE The Struggle over a Constitutional Middle Ground | 235 |
Key to Abbreviations | 303 |
Notes | 307 |
Selected Short Titles | 403 |
Credits | 411 |
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