G. N. Magliocca on Christian G. Fritz’s American Sovereigns

Christian G. Fritz, American Sovereigns: The People and America’s Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Christian G. Fritz’s American Sovereigns: The People and America’s Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War is a useful resource on how the process of constitutional change was tamed during the early Republic. The American Revolution rested on the principle that the people were sovereign, but Fritz focuses on the subsequent debat...