American sovereigns
Subtitle: the people and America's Constitutional tradition 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
Number of pages: 427
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 (p. 403-410) 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.