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- W3125866352 abstract "The proposition that are the preeminent sovereign in the United States has long been a tenet of American public life. The authors of the Declaration of Independence characterized the American people's sovereignty as a self-evident truth when announcing the colonies' decision to sever their ties with Great Britain,1 the delegates to the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 invoked the people's sovereignty when framing the nation's Constitution,2 and Americans today exercise their sovereignty each time they cast their ballots on Election Day. Yet what prerogatives, precisely, does the people's sovereignty entail? In modern America, where neither a bloody revolution nor an entirely new constitution is in the offing, can the people's sovereignty manifest itself in ways other than through participation in the nation's elections? In American Sovereigns: The People and America 's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War, Christian Fritz3 aims to recover for his readers a conception of the people's sovereignty that is far broader than the conception he believes prevails today. Focusing on the period between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, Fritz argues that numerous events - events that historians often mistakenly regard as unrelated - can be fully appreciated only if one sees them as battles in the larger war between two competing understandings of the people's sovereignty. The narrow understanding, which Fritz believes ultimately triumphed, holds that the people may influence day-to-day governmental affairs only through elections and other limited mechanisms that elected officials might authorize, and that Article V of the Constitution describes the exclusive methods by which the Constitution may be changed. The broad understanding permits the sovereign people to intervene directly in day-to-day governmental affairs with or" @default.
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- W3125866352 title "THE VITALITY OF THE AMERICAN SOVEREIGN" @default.
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