Christian G. Fritz

American Sovereigns

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How the American people could both be the ruler and the ruled led to choices that explain the current American constitutionalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 824g
• ISBN-13: 9780521881883
• ISBN-10: 0521881889
• Artikelnr.: 26571402

Autorenporträt

Christian G. Fritz is a professor of law at the University of New Mexico School of Law, where he has held both the Dickason and Weihofen chairs. Fritz has a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. He is the author of Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, 1851¿1891 (1991), a path-breaking work that analyzes the operation of the first federal district court in San Francisco. Fritz delivered the 2002 Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., lecture at the Oklahoma City University School of Law. Professor Fritz is a member of the American Society for Legal History and the American Historical Association, and has served on the editorial boards of several law and history journals.

Inhaltsangabe

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.