Democratic Beginnings: Founding the Western States - Amy Bridges

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Résumé :
State constitutions are blueprints for government institutions, declarations of collective identity, statements of principle, values, and goals. It naturally follows, and this book demonstrates, that the founding documents and the conventions that produced them reflect the emerging dynamics of American democracy in the nineteenth century.

Biographie:
Amy Bridges is professor of political science and adjunct professor of history at University of California San Diego. She is the author of Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest and A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics, 1828-1863....

Sommaire:

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Upon the Shores of an Unknown Sea
• Frontier Foundings
• Managing the Periphery
• Progressive Settlements
• Creating the Western States
• Notes
• Index
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