Political community in revolutionary Pennsylvania 1774-1800

Political community in revolutionary Pennsylvania 1774-1800

1st ed.

New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.

vii, 205 p. ; 23 cm.

342.748 O97 2018

(OCoLC)1022080595

This book challenges the ways we understand popular sovereignty in the American Revolution. Whereas previous histories place undue focus on elite political thought or analysis based on class, this study argues that it was ordinary citizens that cared most about the establishment of a proper, representative, publicly legitimate political process ... It looks at the animating philosophy of the Pennsylvania state constitution of 1776, a 'radical manifesto' which espoused a vision of popular sovereignty in which government was devolved from the people only where necessary. Even when governmental institutions were necessary, their legitimacy rested on being able to clearly demonstrate that they operated on popular consent, expressed in a variety of forms of popular mobilization--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-201) and index.
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