The Civic Constitution: Civic Visions and Struggles in the Path toward Constitut
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Was it simply judges, or did legislatures have a strong say?. And what about the public's role in effecting constitutional change?. In The Civic Constitution, Elizabeth Beaumont focuses on the last category, and traces the efforts of citizens to reinvent constitutional democracyduring four crucial eras: the revolutionaries of the 1770s and 1780s; the civic founders of state republics and the national Constitution in the early national period; abolitionists during theantebellum and Civil War eras; and, finally, suffragists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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