TY  - GEN
AU  - Beaumont,Elizabeth
TI  - The civic constitution: civic visions and struggles in the path toward constitutional democracy 
SN  - 9780199940066
AV  - KF4541 .B33 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford, New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - United States
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Civil society
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -