The First American Constitutions - Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

This volume contains two new chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions for the US Constitution, and another chapter testing the "republicanism over liberalism" thesis against political ideas and institutional arangements that constitute the first states constitutions.

Product details

• Authors: Willi Paul Adams, Adams Willi Paul
• Assisted by: Morris Richard B. (Foreword), Rita Kimber (Translation), Rita and Robert Kimber (Translation), Robert Kimber (Translation), Robert B. Kimber (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2001
• EAN: 9780742520684
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2068-4
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 235 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 712 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Political Ideologies, Politische Ideologien, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, United States of America, USA, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Constitution: government & the state, Political ideologies and movements, Constitution: government and the state