Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Prologue; PART ONE The People's Sovereignty in the States; 2 Revolutionary Constitutionalism; 3 Grassroots Self-Government: America's Early Determinist Movements; 4 Revolutionary Tensions: "Friends of Government" Confront "The Regulators" in Massachusetts; PART TWO The Sovereign Behind the Federal Constitution; 5 The Federal Constitution and the Effort to Constrain the People; 6 Testing the Constitutionalism of 1787: The Whiskey "Rebellion" in Pennsylvania
Summary
How the American people could both be the ruler and the ruled led to choices that explain our current constitutionalism
