Democratic Beginnings
Bridges, Amy![Democratic Beginnings](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/233/23394003/CHSBZCOP0323394003.jpg)
State constitutions are blueprints for government institutions, declarations of collective identity, statements of principle, values, and goals. It naturally follows, and this book demonstrates, that the founding documents and the conventions that produced them reflect the emerging dynamics of American democracy in the nineteenth century. Nowhere is this more clear, Amy Bridges argues, than in the American West.