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Author:

Fritz, Christian G., 1953-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xi, 427 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Cambridge studies on the American Constitution

ISBN:

0521881889 (hardback)
9780521881883 (hardback)
052112560X (paper)
9780521125604

OCLC:

(OCoLC)122973753

LCCN:

2007013827

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)