Kenneth Owen

Political Community in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, 1774-1800 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Political Community in Revolutionary Pennsylvania challenges the ways we understand popular sovereignty in the American Revolution. Whereas previous histories place undue focus on elite political thought or analysis based on class, this study argues that it was ordinary citizens that cared most about the establishment of a proper, representative, publicly legitimate political process. Popular activism constrained the options available to leaders and created a system through which the actions of government were made more representative of the will of the community. Political Community in Revolutionary Pennsylvania analyzes political developments in Pennsylvania from 1774, when Americans united in opposition to Britain's Intolerable Acts, through to 1800 and the election of Thomas Jefferson. It looks at the animating philosophy of the Pennsylvania state constitution of 1776, a 'radical manifesto' which espoused a vision of popular sovereignty in which government was devolved from the people only where necessary. Even when governmental institutions were necessary, their legitimacy rested on being able to clearly demonstrate that they operated on popular consent, expressed in a variety of forms of popular mobilization.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192563033
• Artikelnr.: 54602444

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Owen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois Springfield. He holds a BA, MSt, and DPhil from Queen's College, Oxford. He previously taught at Ohio University and the University of Sussex. He currently teaches courses on Colonial and Revolutionary America, the Early American Republic, Native American history, and the use of digital media.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Making of the Radical Manifesto, 1774-1777
2: Price Fixing and the Political Community, 1778-1779
3: Old Principles, New Constitutions, 1783-1790
4: Political Practices in the Early Republic, 1790-1794
5: The Persistence of the Principles of Political Community, 1795-1799
Conclusion
Bibliography