Between Authority & Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America Paperback - 1999
by Marc W. Kruman
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On May 10 and 15, 1776, the Continental Congress ordered the suppression of "the exercise of every kind of authority under the ... crown" and urged that "all the powers of government, [be] exerted under the authority of the people of the colonies.
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Explores the process of constitution making in each of the thirteen original states and shows that the framers greatly feared arbitrary power and mistrusted legislators ability to represent the people s interests. For these reasons, they broadened the suffrage and introduced frequent elections as a check against legislative self-interest. Kruman s analysis challenges Gordon Wood s now-classic argument that, at the beginning of the Revolution, the founders placed great faith in legislators as representatives of the people.
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- Title Between Authority & Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America
- Author Marc W. Kruman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Pages 238
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
- Date 1999-08-16
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780807847978 / 0807847976
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.21 x 0.63 in (23.55 x 15.77 x 1.60 cm)
- Reading level 1590
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96011615
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.473
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