America’s Forgotten Constitutions : : Defiant Visions of Power and Community / / Robert L. Tsai.
The U.S. Constitution opens by proclaiming the sovereignty of all citizens: "We the People." Robert Tsai's gripping history of alternative constitutions invites readers into the circle of those who have rejected this ringing assertion--the defiant groups that refused to accept the Con...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- 1. The Republic of Indian Stream, 1832–1835
- 2. The Icarian Nation, 1848–1895
- 3. John Brown’s America, 1856–1859
- 4. Confederate Anxieties, 1860–1865
- 5. The Sequoyah Convention, 1905
- 6. A Charter for the World, 1947
- 7. The Republic of New Afrika, 1968
- 8. The Pacific Northwest Homeland, 2006
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index