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

Adams, Willi Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807813885 ISBN 13 : 9780807813881

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1980

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807813885
• ISBN 13: 9780807813881
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 369
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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