The Michigan Constitutional Conventions of 1835-36
The Michigan Constitutional Conventions of 1835-36

Author: Michigan. Constitutional Convention

Publisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press

Published: 1940

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13:

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In the years immediately preceding 1837, when Michigan was at last admitted to the Union, her constitution and State Government were devised by her pioneer inhabitants. The formal proceedings of the Constitutional Conventions of 1835-36 were printed at the time but are now extremely rare volumes. The debates in the Constitutional Conventions were never officially printed, but author Harold M. Dorr has been able to extract many of them from contemporary newspapers and has combined them with the official records in such a way as to present the complete story of how one American state faced and solved the problem of its own organization. Thus, the volume contains materials that the historical student could not gather for himself except at the expenditure of much time and trouble. Dorr is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.

Race to the Frontier
Race to the Frontier

Author: John Van Houten Dippel

Publisher: Algora Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 0875864244

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American Sovereigns
American Sovereigns

Author: Christian G. Fritz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-10-29

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1139467174

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American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 Federal constitutional convention. American Sovereigns examines the idea that after the American Revolution, a collectivity - the people - would rule as the sovereign. Heated political controversies within the states and at the national level over what it meant that the people were the sovereign and how that collective sovereign could express its will were not resolved in 1776, in 1787, or prior to the Civil War. The idea of the people as the sovereign both unified and divided Americans in thinking about government and the basis of the Union. Today's constitutionalism is not a natural inheritance, but the product of choices Americans made between shifting understandings about themselves as a collective sovereign.