The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era
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The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era
By (Author) Willi Paul Adams
Translated by Rita and Robert Kimber
Foreword by Richard B. Morris
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
11th December 2001
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political ideologies and movements
History of the Americas
342.73029
Physical Properties
Paperback
400
Width 153mm, Height 228mm, Spine 29mm
594g
Description
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.
Author Bio
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).
