The First American Constitutions

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

Adams, Willi Paul

Adams, Willi Paul / The First American Constitutions
Format: Book - Paperback
Released: Wed 28 Nov 2001
Catalogue Number: 0742520692

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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. 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.

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  • Forward By: Richard B. Morris
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
  • Translator: Rita and Robert Kimber
  • Editions: Subsequent, Translation
  • Subject Development: History, Legal aspects
  • Geographic Designator: United States
  • Academic Level: Scholarly/Graduate
  • Depth (m): 0.032
  • Dewey: 342.73/029
  • Edition: Expanded
  • Height (m): 0.235
  • Pages: 378
  • Place Of Publication: United States
  • Published Date: Thu 1 Nov 2001
  • Weight (g): 567
  • Width (m): 0.159

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