The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era - Softcover

Adams, Willi Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742520692 ISBN 13: 9780742520691

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001

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Reseña del editor:

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 bythey thought"constitutional" means. Acting for "the people" in 11 of the 13 rebelling states, various kinds of selfempowered 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.

Biografía del autor:

Willi Paul Adams is professor of North American history at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies of the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. He and his wife Angela Adams translated The Federalist Papers into German (Paderborn, 1994).

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0742520692
• ISBN 13: 9780742520691
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400