Beaumont, Elizabeth <br/><br/>
The civic constitution :  civic visions and struggles in the path toward constitutional democracy / 
Elizabeth Beaumont. 
 - xvi, 343 pages ;  25 cm. 
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<br/><br/>The 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199940066 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Constitutional history--United States<br/>Political participation--United States<br/>Civil society--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF4541  / .B33 2014