The First American Constitutions
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The First American Constitutions

Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era

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eBook - ePub

The First American Constitutions

Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2001
eBook ISBN
9780742580107
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Foreword
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Preface to the Expanded Edition
  8. Introduction
  9. CHAPTER I - Government by Congresses and Committees, 1773—1776
  10. CHAPTER II - The Role of the Continental Congress, 1775–1776
  11. CHAPTER III - “Choosing Deputies to Form a Government”: The Making of the First State Constitutions,
  12. CHAPTER IV - “Republic” and “Democracy” in Political Rhetoric
  13. CHAPTER V - Forms versus Principles of Government: Harnessing Enlightenment Ideas to Anglo-American Institutions
  14. CHAPTER VI - Popular Sovereignty
  15. CHAPTER VII - Liberty
  16. CHAPTER VIII - Equality
  17. CHAPTER IX - Property
  18. CHAPTER X - The Common Good
  19. CHAPTER XI - Representation
  20. CHAPTER XII - The Separation of Powers
  21. CHAPTER XIII - Federalism
  22. CHAPTER XIV - The State Constitutions’Analogies and Precedents for the United States Constitutions
  23. CHAPTER XV - Testing the Republicanism versus Liberalism Hypotheses
  24. Appendixes - PROPERTY QUALIFICATIONS IN FIRST STATE CONSTITUTIONS AND ELECTION LAWS
  25. Bibliography - PRIMARY SOURCES
  26. Supplementary Bibliography 1980–1999
  27. Index
  28. Footnotes