American sovereigns
Subtitle: the people's sovereignty and the constitution before the Civil War
By: Christian G. Fritz.
Series: Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521881883
Subjects: Constituent power -- United States -- History; People (Constitutional law) -- United States -- History; State rights -- United States -- History; Federal government -- United States -- History; Constitutional history -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Prologue"; title: The people's sovereignty in the states; title: "Revolutionary constitutionalism"; title: "Grass-roots self-government : America's early determinist movements"; title: "Revolutionary tensions : 'friends of government' confront 'the Regulators' in Massachusetts"; title: The sovereign behind the Federal Constitution; title: "The Federal Constitution and the effort to constrain the people"; title: "Testing the constitutionalism of 1787 : the whiskey 'rebellion' in Pennsylvania"; title: "Federal sovereignty : competing views of the Federal Constitution"; title: The struggle over a constitutional middle ground; title: "The collective sovereign persists : the people's constitution in Rhode Island"; title: "Epilogue".