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Author Tsai, Robert L., 1971- author.

Title America's forgotten constitutions : defiant visions of power and community / Robert L. Tsai
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 352 pages)
Contents The republic of Indian Stream, 1832-1835 -- The Icarian Nation, 1848-1895 -- John Brown's America, 1856-1859 -- Confederate anxieties, 1860-1865 -- The Sequoyah Convention, 1905 -- A charter for the world, circa 1947 -- The republic of New Afrika, 1968 -- The Pacific Northwest homeland, 2006
Summary Robert Tsai's history invites readers into the circle of defiant groups who refused to accept the Constitution's definition of who "We the People" are and how their authority should be exercised. It is the story of America as told by dissenters: squatters, Native Americans, abolitionists, socialists, internationalists, and racial nationalists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Constitutional history -- United States.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- General.
Autonomy and independence movements
Constitutional history
Politics and government
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
United States -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674369429
0674369424