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

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Acknowledgments
1 Prologue
PART ONE The People’s Sovereignty in the States
2 Revolutionary Constitutionalism
Genesis of America\'s New Constitutionalism
Revolutionary Constitutional Settlement
Sovereigns and Subjects
An Enduring Constitutional Legacy of the Revolution
The Process of Revolutionary Constitution-Making
Political Dimensions of the People\'s Sovereignty
New State Constitution-Making Before the Federal Constitution
3 Grassroots Self-Government: America’s Early Determinist Movements
Transylvania
Vermont
Westsylvania
Kentucky, Cumberland, and Franklin
4 Revolutionary Tensions: “Friends of Government” Confront “The Regulators” inMassachusetts
Underlying Grievances of the Regulation
The Revolutionary Context of the Regulation
Contrasting Perceptions of Conventions
Court Closings
Government Response and Regulator Reactions
Aftermath of the Regulation
PART TWO The Sovereign Behind the Federal Constitution
5 The Federal Constitution and the Effortto Constrain the People
Sources of Pessimism by the 1780s
Solutions to America\'s Perceived Dangers
Movement Toward the Federal Constitutional Convention
Work of the Convention
Democracy and Filtration of Leadership
Greater Governmental Power
Constitutional Revision
The Constitutional Product of the Federal Constitution
Circumvention in the Creation of the Federal Constitution
Constitutionalism in the Federal Bill of Rights
6 Testing the Constitutionalism of 1787: The Whiskey “Rebellion” in Pennsylvania
Background of the Whiskey Excise Tax Protests
The Whiskey Excise Tax of 1791
Early Pennsylvania Protests, 1791–1792
Perceptions Underlying the Suppression of the Protest
Competing Views of Constitutionalism and the Democratic Societies
Attack on the Democratic Societies
Defense of the Democratic Societies
Conflicting Attitudes Toward Popular Protests
Competing Constitutional Visions
7 Federal Sovereignty: Competing Views of the Federal Constitution
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
The Hartford Convention
The Nullification Crisis
PART THREE The Struggle over a Constitutional Middle Ground
8 The Collective Sovereign Persists: The People’s Constitution in Rhode Island
Early Efforts at Constitutional Revision in Rhode Island
The Suffrage Movement and Competing Constitutional Conventions
The Struggle for Governmental Legitimacy in Rhode Island
Debate over \"the Rhode Island Question\"
The Constitutional Argument of Dorr’s Supporters
The Constitutional Position of Law and Order Advocates
The Broader Implications of the Rhode Island Debate
Struggle over the \"Precedent of 1842\"
9 Epilogue
American Constitutional History
American Constitutionalism and Constitutional Theory
Jurisprudential Implications
Constitutional Legacy of the Revolution
Key to Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Short Titles
Credits
Index