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Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America
Jason Frank
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Description for Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America
Paperback. An argument that the people, the legitimate ground of public authority in the United States, are not a coherent or sanctioned collective; rather, they exist as an effect of successful claims to speak on their behalf. Num Pages: 360 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied. In Constituent Moments, Jason Frank explores this dilemma of authorization: the grounding of democratic legitimacy in an elusive notion of the people. Frank argues that the people are not a coherent or sanctioned collective. Instead, the people exist as an effect of successful claims to speak on their behalf; the power to speak ... Read more
Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied. In Constituent Moments, Jason Frank explores this dilemma of authorization: the grounding of democratic legitimacy in an elusive notion of the people. Frank argues that the people are not a coherent or sanctioned collective. Instead, the people exist as an effect of successful claims to speak on their behalf; the power to speak ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822346753
SKU
V9780822346753
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About Jason Frank
Jason Frank is the Gary S. Davis Assistant Professor in the History of Political Thought at Cornell University.
Reviews for Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America
“Constituent Moments is the best book on the founding of the United States to have been written in several generations. Jason Frank goes beyond American political history, opening an old question from the Leviathan: ‘The People: What?’ This question is at the heart of democratic sovereignty. Jason Frank's careful attention to canonical political theory and his attentive study of those ... Read more