American sovereigns the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War

American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War / Christian G. Fritz.

Author/creator	Fritz, Christian G., 1953-
Other author/creator	American Council of Learned Societies.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Oxford [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
Description	xi, 427 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subject(s)	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.

Series	Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2007013827
ISBN	9780521881883 (hardback)
ISBN	9780521125604 (paper)

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