America's Jeffersonian experiment : remaking state constitutions, 1820-1850 / Laura J. Scalia.
1999
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Title
America's Jeffersonian experiment : remaking state constitutions, 1820-1850 / Laura J. Scalia.
Published
DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, 1999.
Call Number
KF4541 .S32 1999
ISBN
0875802443 (alk. paper)
Description
xxiv, 218 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)40126948
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-208) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Jeffersonian Constitutionalism
3
Pt. I
Debates over Defining Rights
23
1The Origin of Rights
27
2Reformers and Popular Sovereignty
48
3Antireformers and Property
76
Pt. II
Debates over Protecting Rights
97
4Virtue and Government
101
5Human Nature and Good Citizenship
132
Conclusion: America's Constitutional Traditions
156
Notes
169
References
195
Index
209