Frontier democracy : constitutional conventions in the Old Northwest

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Label

Frontier democracy : constitutional conventions in the Old Northwest

Title remainder

constitutional conventions in the Old Northwest

Statement of responsibility

Silvana R. Siddali, Saint Louis University

Creator

• Siddali, Silvana R

Author

• Siddali, Silvana R

Subject

• Constitutional conventions -- Northwest, Old -- History -- 19th century
• Democracy
• Democracy -- Northwest, Old -- History -- 19th century
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Northwest, Old
• History
• 1800-1899
• Northwest, Old -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Politics and government
• Social conditions
• United States -- Northwest, Old
• Northwest, Old -- Politics and government -- 19th century
• Constitutional conventions

Genre

• trueHistory

Language

eng

Summary

"Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) from the 1820s through the 1850s. This is a book about conversations: in particular, the fights and negotiations over the core ideals in the constitutions that brought these frontier communities to life. Silvana R. Siddali argues that the Northwestern debates over representation and citizenship reveal two profound commitments: the first to fair deliberation, and the second to ethical principles based on republicanism, Christianity, and science. Some of these ideas succeeded brilliantly: within forty years, the region became an economic and demographic success story. However, some failed tragically: racial hatred prevailed everywhere in the region, in spite of reformers' passionate arguments for justice, and resulted in disfranchisement and even exclusion for non-white Northwesterners that lasted for generations"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

342.77/024209034

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

KF4530

LC item number

.S56 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography