The Civic Constitution
Civic Visions and Struggles in the Path toward Constitutional Democracy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 March 2014
- ISBN 9780199940066
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 236x165x33 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Civic Constitution provides a compelling case for rethinking the U.S. Constitution. By exploring pivotal struggles over governmental power, individual rights, and the boundaries of citizenship, this book challenges reigning approaches and reveals the profound importance of 'civic founders' who worked to reinvent the constitutional order.
MoreLong description:
The role of the Constitution in American political history is contentious not simply because of battles over meaning. Equally important is precisely who participated in contests over meaning. Was it simply judges, or did legislatures have a strong say? And what about the public's role in effecting constitutional change? In The Civic Constitution, Elizabeth Beaumont focuses on the last category, and traces the efforts of citizens to reinvent constitutional democracy during four crucial eras: the revolutionaries of the 1770s and 1780s; the civic founders of state republics and the national Constitution in the early national period; abolitionists during the antebellum and Civil War eras; and, finally, suffragists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Throughout, she argues that these groups should be recognized as founders and co-founders of the U.S. Constitution. Though often slighted in modern constitutional debates, these women and men developed distinctive constitutional creeds and practices, challenged existing laws and social norms, expanded the boundaries of citizenship, and sought to translate promises of liberty, equality, and justice into more robust and concrete forms. Their civic ideals and struggles not only shaped the text, design, and public meaning of the U.S. Constitution, but reconstructed its membership and transformed the fundamental commitments of the American political community. An innovative expansion on the concept of popular constitutionalism, The Civic Constitution is a vital contribution to the growing body of literature on how ordinary people have shaped the parameters of America's fundamental laws.
Beaumont does an admirable job showing that constitutional struggles have always entailed sharp differences over conceptions of the good life.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Key to Abbreviations
Introduction
1 : The Civic Constitution
Part One: Revisiting the 18th Century Founding
2 : Making Liberty Popular
Revolutionaries' "Common Sense " Popular Constitutionalism and New State Republics
3 : The Unfinished Constitution
Quarrels and Claims of "We, the People " in Constitutional Creation and Ratification
Part Two: Civic Struggles to Refound "We, the People " and the Constitution
4 : Pursuing Equality
Abolitionists' Anti-slavery Constitutionalism and Reconstruction
5 : Claiming Justice
Suffragists' Gender Justice Constitutionalism and Transformation
6 : The Complexities of a Civic Founders' Constitution
References
Index
