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xi, 427 p. ; 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references and index, 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

Author

Fritz, Christian G., 1953-

Publisher

Oxford [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521125604

Subjects

Law, History, Political Science