Description |
1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) |
Contents |
Upon the shores of an unknown sea -- Frontier foundings -- Managing the periphery -- Progressive settlements -- Creating the western states |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-189) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Democracy -- West (U.S.)
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State governments -- West (U.S.)
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Constitutional history -- West (U.S.)
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Constitutional conventions -- West (U.S.) -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Constitutional conventions
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Constitutional history
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Democracy
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Politics and government
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State governments
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SUBJECT |
West (U.S.) -- Politics and government
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Subject |
West United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780700621491 |
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0700621490 |
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