Author: Silvana R. Siddali
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) from the 1820s through the 1850s. This is a book about conversations: in particular, the fights and negotiations over the core ideals in the constitutions that brought these frontier communities to life. Silvana R. Siddali argues that the Northwestern debates over representation and citizenship reveal two profound commitments: the first to fair deliberation, and the second to ethical principles based on republicanism, Christianity, and science. Some of these ideas succeeded brilliantly: within forty years, the region became an economic and demographic success story. However, some failed tragically: racial hatred prevailed everywhere in the region, in spite of reformers' passionate arguments for justice, and resulted in disfranchisement and even exclusion for non-white Northwesterners that lasted for generations.
Frontier Democracy
Author: Silvana R. Siddali
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) from the 1820s through the 1850s. This is a book about conversations: in particular, the fights and negotiations over the core ideals in the constitutions that brought these frontier communities to life. Silvana R. Siddali argues that the Northwestern debates over representation and citizenship reveal two profound commitments: the first to fair deliberation, and the second to ethical principles based on republicanism, Christianity, and science. Some of these ideas succeeded brilliantly: within forty years, the region became an economic and demographic success story. However, some failed tragically: racial hatred prevailed everywhere in the region, in spite of reformers' passionate arguments for justice, and resulted in disfranchisement and even exclusion for non-white Northwesterners that lasted for generations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) from the 1820s through the 1850s. This is a book about conversations: in particular, the fights and negotiations over the core ideals in the constitutions that brought these frontier communities to life. Silvana R. Siddali argues that the Northwestern debates over representation and citizenship reveal two profound commitments: the first to fair deliberation, and the second to ethical principles based on republicanism, Christianity, and science. Some of these ideas succeeded brilliantly: within forty years, the region became an economic and demographic success story. However, some failed tragically: racial hatred prevailed everywhere in the region, in spite of reformers' passionate arguments for justice, and resulted in disfranchisement and even exclusion for non-white Northwesterners that lasted for generations.
Frontier Constitutions
Author: John D. Blanco
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9715426360
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9715426360
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Freedom's Frontier
Author: Stacey L. Smith
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Smith reveals that the state's anti-Chinese movement, forged in its struggle over unfree labor, reached eastward to transform federal Reconstruction policy and national race relations for decades to come. Throughout, she illuminates the startling ways in which the contest over slavery's fate included a western struggle that encompassed diverse labor systems and workers not easily classified as free or slave, black or white.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Smith reveals that the state's anti-Chinese movement, forged in its struggle over unfree labor, reached eastward to transform federal Reconstruction policy and national race relations for decades to come. Throughout, she illuminates the startling ways in which the contest over slavery's fate included a western struggle that encompassed diverse labor systems and workers not easily classified as free or slave, black or white.
Territorial Constitutions
Author: J. W. Smurr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Territorial Constitutions
Author: J. W. Smurr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 1986
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 1986
Book Description
Covenant and Constitutionalism
Author: Daniel Elazar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135152545X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This volume traces the trends and the developing relationships of constitutionalism and covenant that ultimately led to the transformation of the latter into the former. Elazar explores the paths that emerged out of the constitutionalized covenantal tradition in Europe such as federalism, communitarianism, and the cooperative movement.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135152545X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This volume traces the trends and the developing relationships of constitutionalism and covenant that ultimately led to the transformation of the latter into the former. Elazar explores the paths that emerged out of the constitutionalized covenantal tradition in Europe such as federalism, communitarianism, and the cooperative movement.
A Brilliant Solution
Author: Carol Berkin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156028721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Revisiting all the original documents and using her deep knowledge of eighteenth-century history and politics, Carol Berkin takes a fresh look at the men who framed the Constitution, the issues they faced, and the times they lived in. Berkin transports the reader into the hearts and minds of the founders, exposing their fears and their limited expectations of success.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156028721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Revisiting all the original documents and using her deep knowledge of eighteenth-century history and politics, Carol Berkin takes a fresh look at the men who framed the Constitution, the issues they faced, and the times they lived in. Berkin transports the reader into the hearts and minds of the founders, exposing their fears and their limited expectations of success.
The Political Economy of the American Frontier
Author: Ilia Murtazashvili
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107019125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Demonstrates why claim clubs are perhaps the most important explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions during an important period in American history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107019125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Demonstrates why claim clubs are perhaps the most important explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions during an important period in American history.
Early Frontier Democracy in the First Kentucky Constitution
Author: Ellis Merton Coulter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier
Author: James N. Rosenau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521587648
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
James Rosenau explores the enormous changes in both national and international political systems which are currently transforming world affairs.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521587648
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
James Rosenau explores the enormous changes in both national and international political systems which are currently transforming world affairs.