Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2008
Abstract
Historical and popular understandings of the American constitutional tradition have adopted the contentions of only one side of this debate and its role in bringing about the 1787 constitution. In doing so, these accounts miss much of that tradition’s actual history.
Publication Title
Common-Place
Keywords
American Constitutionalism, Dorr Rebellion, Federal Framers, Popular Sovereignty, Proceduralism, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, Shays Rebellion, Sovereignty of the People, Whiskey Rebellion
Recommended Citation
Christian G. Fritz,
America's Unknown Constitutional World,
Common-Place
(2008).
Available at:
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/64
