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Democratic Beginnings
Amy Bridges
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Description for Democratic Beginnings
The history of the creation and revision of Western state constitutions from the antebellum period to the Progressive Era. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 825.
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. Nowhere is this more clear, Amy Bridges tells us in Democratic Beginnings, than in the American West.
A close study of the constitutional conventions that founded eleven Western states, and of the constitutions they wrote, Democratic Beginnings traces the arc of Western development. Spanning the sixty years from California’s constitution of 1850 to ... Read more
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. Nowhere is this more clear, Amy Bridges tells us in Democratic Beginnings, than in the American West.
A close study of the constitutional conventions that founded eleven Western states, and of the constitutions they wrote, Democratic Beginnings traces the arc of Western development. Spanning the sixty years from California’s constitution of 1850 to ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700621729
SKU
V9780700621729
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About Amy Bridges
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.
Reviews for Democratic Beginnings
“Democratic Beginnings shows that late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century founders of western constitutions not only approached their task in a different fashion than framers of the federal constitution but also differed from earlier generations of state constitutionmakers, on account of the distinct problems of governance they encountered and their readiness to adopt innovative provisions in response to these challenges.” John Dinan, ... Read more