Constitutional Rights and Powers of the People

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American constitutionalism rests on premises of popular sovereignty, but questions remain about how the "people" and their rights and powers fit into the constitutional design. In a book that will radically reorient thinking about the Constitution, political scientist Wayne Moore offers new insights into central problems of constitutional history, theory, and law.

Winner of the 1997 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Laws and Courts section of the American Political Science Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997 "The entire package within which these familiar positions take shape is often refreshingly original... There is much in Moore's work that merits attention from constitutional theorists."--Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn, The Law and Politics Book Review "[Moore's] reflections on constitutional law are excellent... This book will be useful to professors of Constitutional Law and possibly to students in courses in advanced studies of the Constitution... Professor Moore's treatment of the Dred Scott decision is especially interesting since it weaves in materials that will not be familiar to many readers."--Robert F. Drinan, Law Books in Review