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American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War
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- Creator
- Christian G. Fritz
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xi, 427 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521881883, 052112560X, 9780521125604, 0511480385, 0511800584, 9780511800580, 0521881889, 9780511480386
- OCLC
- ocn122973753, ocn318824486
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Prologue -- The people's sovereignty in the states -- Revolutionary constitutionalism -- Grassroots 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