Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America

Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground

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An argument that the people, the legitimate ground of public authority in the United States, are not a coherent or sanct

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An argument that the people, the legitimate ground of public authority in the United States, are not a coherent or sanct

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Constituent power is the power to create new constitutions. Frequently exercised during political revolutions, it has be

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A history of women's political organizing and state formation in Mexico before and during the populist regime of Ca

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The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasi

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In the first decades after independence in 1980, kastom--indigenous knowledge and practice--became a key marker of ni-Va

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An ethnography showing that collective land titling for native peoples is both an enormous accomplishment and a source o

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The first archive-based study of the failure of President Cardenas's agrarian reform in Mexico's Yucatan regio

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