American Sovereigns : The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War

xii, 426pp. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. In its original illustrated dust jacket. Volume and jacket in as new condition throughout. Goes to the roots of the American constitutional tradition, telling a complicated story of constitutional development from the period of the Revolution to the Civil War, by offering an intimate account of change that reckons with the extraordinary role of the people as sovereigns.