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050 00 $aKF4541$b.B33 2014
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100 1 $aBeaumont, Elizabeth,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe civic constitution :$bcivic visions and struggles in the path toward constitutional democracy /$cElizabeth Beaumont.
264 1 $aOxford ;$aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c[2014]
264 4 $c℗♭2014
300 $axvi, 343 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index.
520 $a"The role of the Constitution in American political history is contentious not simply because of battles over meaning. Equally important is precisely who participated in contests over meaning. Was it simply judges, or did legislatures have a strong say? And what about the public's role in effecting constitutional change? In The Civic Constitution, Elizabeth Beaumont focuses on the last category, and traces the efforts of citizens to reinvent constitutional democracy during four crucial eras: the revolutionaries of the 1770s and 1780s; the civic founders of state republics and the national Constitution in the early national period; abolitionists during the antebellum and Civil War eras; and, finally, suffragists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Throughout, she argues that these groups should be recognized as founders and co-founders of the U.S. Constitution. Though often slighted in modern constitutional debates, these women and men developed distinctive constitutional creeds and practices, challenged existing laws and social norms, expanded the boundaries of citizenship, and sought to translate promises of liberty, equality, and justice into more robust and concrete forms. Their civic ideals and struggles not only shaped the text, design, and public meaning of the U.S. Constitution, but reconstructed its membership and transformed the fundamental commitments of the American political community. An innovative expansion on the concept of popular constitutionalism, The Civic Constitution is a vital contribution to the growing body of literature on how ordinary people have shaped the parameters of America's fundamental laws"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aThe civic constitution : revisiting four eras of civic founding and refounding -- Making liberty popular : revolutionaries and "common sense" constitutionalism, declaring independence and forming new state republics -- "We, the quarreling people" and the unfinished constitution : contentions of antislavery activists, Shaysites, and antifederalists in the dynamics of constitutional creation -- Pursuing equality : abolitionists, antislavery constitutionalism, and pursuit of national reconstruction -- Claiming justice : suffragists, gender justice constitutionalism, and pursuit of national transformation -- The complexities of a civic founders' constitution.
650 0 $aConstitutional history$zUnited States.
650 0 $aPolitical participation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCivil society$zUnited States.
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