Between authority & liberty : state constitution making in revolutionary America
In a reinterpretation of American political thought in the revolutionary era, Marc Kruman explores the process of constitution making in each of the 13 original states and shows that the framers created a distinctively American science of politics well before the end of the Confederation era.
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©1997
History
xiv, 223 pages ; 25 cm
9780807823026, 9780807847978, 0807823023, 0807847976
34321144
Nearly in the old channel?: English constitutionalism, imperial crisis, and state formation in revolutionary America
The present business of all America: constitution making in the revolutionary states
The compact of the whole people and the limitation of all legislative and executive power: declarations of rights and constitutions
Represented according to the true intent and meaning thereof: political representation
The greatest right of freemen: the suffrage
By their united influence become dangerous: the separation of powers
Power should be a check to power: Bicameralism and the reinvention of mixed government
Conclusion: the mechanical polity