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Author Bridges, Amy, author

Title Democratic beginnings : founding the Western States / Amy Bridges
Published Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]

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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
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Subject Democracy -- West (U.S.)
State governments -- West (U.S.)
Constitutional history -- West (U.S.)
Constitutional conventions -- West (U.S.) -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Constitutional conventions
Constitutional history
Democracy
Politics and government
State governments
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Politics and government
Subject West United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780700621491
0700621490