The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era

For the last twenty years this book has been cited by every serious writer on early American constitutional development. Any constitutional history of the independent United States must begin with this comprehensive study. This volume contains two new chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions for the U.S. Constitution, and another chapter critically testing the republicanism over liberalism thesis against political ideas and institutional arrangements that constitute the first state constitutions.Willi Paul Adams is the author of 'The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era', published 2001 under ISBN 9780742520684 and ISBN 0742520684.