Between authority & liberty : state constitution making in revolutionary America / Marc W. Kruman.
1997
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Author
Title
Between authority & liberty : state constitution making in revolutionary America / Marc W. Kruman.
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Call Number
JK2484 .K78 1997
ISBN
0807823023 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 223 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)34321144
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1
Nearly in the Old Channel?: English Constitutionalism, Imperial Crisis, and State Formation in Revolutionary America
1
2
The Present Business of All America: Constitution Making in the Revolutionary States
15
3
The Compact of the Whole People and the Limitation of All Legislative and Executive Power: Declarations of Rights and Constitutions
35
4
Represented According to the True Intent and Meaning Thereof: Political Representation
61
5
The Greatest Right of Freemen: The Suffrage
87
6
By Their United Influence Become Dangerous: The Separation of Powers
109
7
Power Should Be a Check to Power: Bicameralism and the Reinvention of Mixed Government
131
Conclusion: The Mechanical Polity
155
Notes
165
Bibliography
203
Index
217