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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth Beaumont (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9780190692551ISBN 10: 0190692553 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 22 February 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. 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"Reviews[A]n excellent resource, providing a worthwhile and well-reasoned perspective contributing to a fuller understanding of American constitutionalism. A valuable addition to the discourse on popular constitutionalism, this title should occupy a place in every academic law library. - Heather N. Joy, Research/Instruction Librarian, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University, Law Library Journal One thing that makes 'The Civic Constitution' particularly exciting is the achievement of studying this extremely diffuse form of popular constitutionalism...Beaumont does an impressive job, weaving together newspaper articles, political pamphlets, popular songs, sermons, and petitions to identify the contents of civic constitutionalism. The result makes for a convincing argument, and an exciting read. * Political Science Quarterly * [A]n excellent resource, providing a worthwhile and well-reasoned perspective contributing to a fuller understanding of American constitutionalism. A valuable addition to the discourse on popular constitutionalism, this title should occupy a place in every academic law library. - Heather N. Joy, Research/Instruction Librarian, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University, Law Library Journal One thing that makes 'The Civic Constitution' particularly exciting is the achievement of studying this extremely diffuse form of popular constitutionalism...Beaumont does an impressive job, weaving together newspaper articles, political pamphlets, popular songs, sermons, and petitions to identify the contents of civic constitutionalism. The result makes for a convincing argument, and an exciting read. * Political Science Quarterly * One thing that makes 'The Civic Constitution' particularly exciting is the achievement of studying this extremely diffuse form of popular constitutionalism...Beaumont does an impressive job, weaving together newspaper articles, political pamphlets, popular songs, sermons, and petitions to identify the contents of civic constitutionalism. The result makes for a convincing argument, and an exciting read. --Political Science Quarterly [A]n excellent resource, providing a worthwhile and well-reasoned perspective contributing to a fuller understanding of American constitutionalism. A valuable addition to the discourse on popular constitutionalism, this title should occupy a place in every academic law library. - Heather N. Joy, Research/Instruction Librarian, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University, Law Library Journal [P]rovides a rich and fascinating account of how popular participation has informed constitutional development by going beyond rights claims and legal mobilization --Cyril Ghosh, Review of Politics The groups that Beaumont studies are not unfamiliar, but she places them in a position not usually granted to them. In Beaumont's work, these are not merely enthusiastic citizens, not merely agitators. They are Founders. --Kathleen Sullivan, Tulsa Law Review One of the great virtues of Beaumont's historical investigation is to illustrate how even judicially enforceable textual clauses are more fully understood by way of the Civic Constitution. --George Thomas, Constitutional Commentary [A] vibrant and in some ways path-setting work of scholarship, and it stands as an important contribution to the literature on constitutionalism and American political development. --Steven Lichtman, Law and Politics Book Review [U]rges scholars to embrace complexity in the answers we seek, and ordinary citizens to keep alive the possibility of reinvention. --Robert Tsai, Contemporary Political Theory Emancipating civic founders from oblivion and regaining for them a place in cofounding along with legal founders is the valuable contribution of this excellent and rich work, which draws upon multiple disciplinary domains. The meaning of Beaumont's project is hugely relevant to students of democratic politics. --Nadia Urbinati, Perspectives on Politics Author InformationElizabeth Beaumont is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, where she focuses on democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism. Previously, she was a Research Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In addition to her work on constitutionalism, she has co-authored books on civic education and political engagement. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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