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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      31 January 2011
      29 October 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511800580
      9780521881883
      9780521125604
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511800580
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.79kg, 440 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 440 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Legal History, US Law, American Government, Politics and Policy, Law, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
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    Subjects:
    Legal History, US Law, American Government, Politics and Policy, Law, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
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    American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 Federal constitutional convention. American Sovereigns examines the idea that after the American Revolution, a collectivity - the people - would rule as the sovereign. Heated political controversies within the states and at the national level over what it meant that the people were the sovereign and how that collective sovereign could express its will were not resolved in 1776, in 1787, or prior to the Civil War. The idea of the people as the sovereign both unified and divided Americans in thinking about government and the basis of the Union. Today's constitutionalism is not a natural inheritance, but the product of choices Americans made between shifting understandings about themselves as a collective sovereign.

    Awards

    Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2008

    Reviews

    'In one of the most significant contributions to rethinking the nature and function of constitutionalism that this reviewer has encountered in many years, promising historian-lawyer Fritz (University of New Mexico) has taken a new look at the role of popular sovereignty in conflicts over the nature of constitutionalism in the US … A highly accessible, nicely produced, and beautifully researched and written book that is a must read for historians and teachers of public law.'

    S. N. Katz - Princeton University

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