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The First American Constitutions - Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era (Paperback, Expanded)
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The First American Constitutions - Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era (Paperback, Expanded)
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For the last twenty years this book has been cited by every serious
writer on early American constitutional development. Any
constitutional history of the independent United States must begin
with this comprehensive study. Professor Adams combines a European
perspective and a thorough knowledge of the antecedents of 1787 to
create an insightful analysis of the replacement by the
revolutionary generation of one government by another by-they
thought-"constitutional" means. Acting for "the people" in 11 of
the 13 rebelling states, various kinds of self-empowered
committees, "congresses," or "conventions" created new
constitutions and a system in which the states dominated over the
weaker Confederation government. This volume contains two new
chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions
for the U.S. Constitution, and another chapter critically testing
the "republicanism over liberalism" thesis against political ideas
and institutional arrangements that constitute the first state
constitutions. The bibliography has been updated to include the
rich body of work written during the last two decades, much of it
indebted to this pioneering study.
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