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American Sovereigns
Christian G. Fritz
其他書名
The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War
出版Cambridge University Press, 2007-10-29
主題History / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Law / Legal History
ISBN11394671749781139467179
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZpKCvUacmSwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.