American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War

ISBN: 9780521125604 出版年：2007 页码：441 Christian G Fritz Cambridge University Press

1. Prologue Part I. The People's Sovereignty in the States: 2. Revolutionary constitutionalism 3. Grass-roots self-government: America's early determinist movements 4. Revolutionary tensions: 'friends of government' confront 'the regulators' in Massachusetts Part II. The Sovereign Behind the Federal Constitution: 5. The federal constitution and the effort to constrain the people 6. Testing the constitutionalism of 1787: the Whiskey 'Rebellion' in Pennsylvania 7. Federal sovereignty: competing views of the federal constitution Part III. The Struggle over a Constitutional Middle Ground: 8. The collective sovereign persists: the people's constitution in Rhode Island 9. Epilogue.