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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... draft for which I am most appreciative. The book's production owes a debt of gratitude to Michiko Okaya, Director of the Williams Center Art Gallery at Lafayette College, for graciously facilitating the use of the Wolcutt painting for ...
... draft for which I am most appreciative. The book's production owes a debt of gratitude to Michiko Okaya, Director of the Williams Center Art Gallery at Lafayette College, for graciously facilitating the use of the Wolcutt painting for ...
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... drafting and ratification of the federal Constitution. How the people should govern through constitutions surfaced in many hardfought political controversiesthereafter. Yet the promise of constitutionalism remained bright even as the ...
... drafting and ratification of the federal Constitution. How the people should govern through constitutions surfaced in many hardfought political controversiesthereafter. Yet the promise of constitutionalism remained bright even as the ...
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... drafted during the Revolution articulated how governments founded not on one sovereign, but on many, would operate. Those constitutions transformed the idea of the people as the sovereign into a practical reality. This transformation ...
... drafted during the Revolution articulated how governments founded not on one sovereign, but on many, would operate. Those constitutions transformed the idea of the people as the sovereign into a practical reality. This transformation ...
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... drafted. However, a written constitution giving voice to a collective people speaking as the sovereign and directing government was different in theory and practice from previous constitutions. American constitutions were written ...
... drafted. However, a written constitution giving voice to a collective people speaking as the sovereign and directing government was different in theory and practice from previous constitutions. American constitutions were written ...
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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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