TY - BOOK AU - Tsai,Robert L. TI - America's forgotten constitutions: defiant visions of power and community SN - 9780674369429 AV - KF4541 .T73 2014eb U1 - 342.7302/92 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press KW - Constitutional history KW - United States KW - Histoire constitutionnelle KW - États-Unis KW - LAW KW - Constitutional KW - bisacsh KW - Public KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - American Government KW - General KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - History KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=663455 ER -