The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

158 Chapter VII answer the question. A country gaining independence in this way would not have been the country that emerged in ...

CHAPTER VIII THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: THE PEOPLE AS CONSTITUENT POWER We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are ...

160 Chapter VIII bution of goods, and the most advanced parties objected to private wealth only when it became too closely assoc ...

The People as Constituent Power 161 which, revolutionary in origin, soon became institutionalized in the public law of the Unite ...

162 Chapter VIII convention engaged in writing a constitution not to be embroiled in daily politics and problems of government. ...

The People as Constituent Power 163 power is needed to produce a constitution than to pass ordinary laws or carry on ordinary ex ...

164 Chapter VIII was popular objection to this situation, probably more than a reading of European books, that made the separati ...

The People as Constituent Power 165 divine inspiration of the Old and New Testaments. Voters elected the legislators, the execut ...

166 Chapter VIII begin to govern themselves. This was in some ways a conservative tract. Adams thought it best, during the war, ...

The People as Constituent Power 167 said that no one could be governed without his consent, and that no living person had really ...

168 Chapter VIII “social” in social compact? And whence comes the word “citizen”? There were no “citizens” under the British con ...

The People as Constituent Power 169 that the £3 and £60 of 1780 represent an increase of only one- eighth over the figures of 16 ...

170 Chapter VIII The Massachusetts constitution prescribed certain qualifications for eligibility. The governor was required to ...

The People as Constituent Power 171 since the rebellion against King George, and four years since the British army had left Mass ...

172 Chapter VIII against the dangers of popular rule. The Philadelphia convention has been repre- sented as an almost clandestin ...

The People as Constituent Power 173 tine, as shown in the Massachusetts convention of 1780, which had been followed by a New Ham ...

174 Chapter VIII number of senators, but it was the state legislatures that chose them. Since it was the state legislatures that ...

The People as Constituent Power 175 favoring primogeniture and entail were done away with, but apparently they had been little u ...

176 Chapter VIII ment, the habit of thinking in terms of two levels of law, of an ordinary law checked by a higher constitutiona ...

CHAPTER IX EUROPE AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Ce vaste Continent, qu’environnent les mers, Va tout- à- coup changer l’Europe et ...